If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

When it's time to freshen up the mulch in your garden or flower beds, you might find yourself second-guessing your usual choice. When pine straw and pine bark mulch are your two main options, you ...

Compost is costly, I can’t deny it. It’s also been in short supply as more of us are tending our gardens and nurturing our soil. Bark, on the other hand, is relatively cheap and plentiful. If compost ...

BOISE, Idaho — Are you looking for a way to spruce up your home landscape without having to spend a lot of time and energy to do it? A blanket of bark mulch is a great way to make your yard pop with a ...

Homeowners often learn the hard way that bark mulch on a steep hill can behave more like a loose avalanche than a ground cover. After one strong storm, half a carefully spread layer can end up in the ...

For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...

For 17 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens and show beds, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come ...

Although the benefits of mulching garden plants are many, wood mulch that has been improperly stockpiled can lead to plant injury or even death. Young herbaceous plants are the most susceptible to ...

Sometimes even the best innovations have unexpected consequences. For example, one of the most important and successful pieces of environmental legislation in the history of the United States ...