If you’re in New England like me, that often means several weekends of raking, piling and bagging leaves. This year, I’m considering mulching them with my lawn tractor instead. Both bagging ...

What is mulch? It is simply material you use to cover the surface of the soil in your garden beds. Generally people use ...

• Applied to depth of 4 inches, mulch suppresses weeds by blocking sunlight from reaching the soil. Too much mulch, though, ...

There were no pines or magnolias, so the leaves were uniform, and the yard sported a few wildflowers so I knew the clippings ...

Mulch can be almost any loose aggregate material that will stay put and not significantly reduce air exchange out of the soil. But what kind is best?

Gonzalo stirs a mix of mulched coca leaves and cement with gasoline, as part of the initial process to make coca paste. Apart from gasoline and cement, ammonia, sulfuric acid, sodium permanganate ...

In theory, if you have a wood chipper with no mulcher, you can theoretically use your lawn mower to chop up leaves. Keep in mind, though, that a mower won’t be able to mulch a large quantity of ...

Store in a shady spot and the following autumn the leaves will have rotted down into a rich, crumbly mixture that can be used as a mulch around the base of plants. Let the leaves rot down for ...

Hendersonville's spring mulch giveaway program begins Wednesday, March 26. Mulch will be available for pick up 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The free pickup will continue until May ...

Would it be OK to mulch using the fallen leaves of live oak trees? — Carrie That information does not apply to mulches. When you use low-nitrogen organic materials for mulch, such as cypress ...

Spring is in the air, garden cleanup is underway and a fresh layer of mulch gives any landscape or garden a clean look while suppressing weeds.