A long-lasting mulch option can boost your garden's look and performance, but it comes with trade-offs worth weighing before ...

When it comes to covers for your garden soil, pine straw may be right. You'll only know for sure once you've compared it to ...

Make your plants healthy and happy (and your life easier) by choosing the best mulch for your landscape. The right mulch will help your plants and trees stay healthy by retaining soil moisture and ...

Green grass growing next to wood bark mulch. - Malorny/Getty Images Mulch is simply the name gardeners give to a layer of material spread on top of soil. It can be organic, like compost or manure, or ...

As part of Mizzou Botanic Garden's leaf-mulching program, fallen leaves are shredded as they are vacuumed by the Landscape ...

Fall mulching also gives you a head start on next spring. As the mulch breaks down over the winter, it adds essential nutrients to the soil, giving your plants a boost once warmer weather arrives.

I had the great fortune to take a Landscaping Design class a few years back from Dr. Steve George through the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension program. It might have been the most inspiring class I've ...

I'm glad to see fewer and fewer homeowners in my neighborhood bagging and discarding leaves; unlike previous years, I know they're focused on sustainable alternatives. Whether their efforts are guided ...