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 ...

When used properly, organic mulch can provide numerous benefits for garden beds and landscapes. When used improperly, mulch ...

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, ...

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?

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

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 ...

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 ...