Q. Just recently, I have noticed brown dots appear on the side of my house. When I try to remove them, I find it is almost impossible to do so without damaging my siding. What is going on? A. It ...

Do you have small black spots on your car or maybe on your house? When found on a car, these small black spots are often attributed to fresh tar on newly paved roads. Instead, these black tarlike ...

A pile of wood chips will break down over time and become compost, among other things. Last year I piled extra mulch into knee-high piles around my shed and near my garden. The heat, rain, worms and ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. For the second year, a fungus that smells like something dead has shown up in ...

Sep. 6—Mulches provide numerous benefits in our landscapes, including conserving soil moisture and suppressing weeds, as well as providing a pleasing background to highlight landscape plantings.

Cool weather and moisture in the winter here in Florida may lead to some foul-smelling fungi appearing in your mulch. Stinkhorn fungi can be quite striking in the landscape but are often viewed as a ...

"Grease" may not be the word, after all, as Joe Ponessa, emeritus professor of housing, indoor environment and health at Rutgers Cooperative Extension, sees it. Ponessa was responding to a recent ...

Do You Need to Mulch Every Year? No, you don’t have to mulch every year, but doing so can benefit your garden. Choosing to mulch isn’t a one-size-fits-all task and depends upon several factors. "It ...