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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mini pine bark nuggets make an attractive and effective mulch in the Alfred B. Maclay pollinator garden. I think I’d be hard ...

“You are what you eat” is an old saying, and it points the way to picking the right mulch for your landscape. It’s common sense that if you add several inches of anything to your gardens each year it ...

Though mulch's main purpose is to preserve moisture and deter weed growth, it also has an aesthetic function, and so the available choices are sometimes the source of disagreement. Some prefer to take ...

Mulch helps retain moisture in the soil, regulate soil temperature, and suppress weeds. Composted hardwood bark is an excellent mulch choice for the Northeast, while pine straw and pine fines are ...

Mulch is practical -- it holds moisture and controls weeds. It is also a design element that helps give your landscape a clean, unified look. What mulch should you use on your landscape beds? My first ...

I think I’d be hard pressed to find a gardener unaware of mulch, that stuff you put under plants to help keep down weeds and make your landscape beds look more defined. But there’s more to mulch than ...