Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone planting a ground cover plant in fresh soil - Chet_w/Getty Images While ground cover plants are often referred to as ...

Placing landscape fabric under mulch can have some serious downsides.

Today is Arbor Day, that day devoted to encouraging people to planting a new tree or three. You might run into a variety of differing advice on exactly how to do this deed correctly. It doesn’t help ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. It’s the annual fall dilemma. The leaves that have ...

Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

Applying mulch offers several benefits, including retaining soil moisture, reducing soil erosion, insulating roots from ...

We are in the proverbial dog days of summer, and not only does the air temperature rise, but the soil temperature increases and quickly dries the moisture out of our gardens. Given the statewide ...

Mulch is beautiful, and it's a healthy contribution to the garden too. Mulch protects soil from losing moisture, from wild temperature swings, and it can keep some weeds from sprouting. But this ...

Results recently published in the journal Plant and Soil by the researchers of the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and ...

Gardening expert explains how covering tomato soil with natural materials like straw or newspaper can prevent destructive ...