If you're seeing grass sprouting in your mulch beds, you may need to address the root problem: find out how it's spreading, ...

Mulch can make your spring beds look polished or permanently half finished. Spread the wrong way, it flattens plants, invites pests, and leaves your borders looking like a construction site instead of ...

We all love the look of a freshly mulched garden bed or tree well. Besides looking great, there are quite a few other benefits to mulch. Mulch can suppress weeds by blocking the light that some seeds ...

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 ...

Volunteers place mulch around a tree at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center Martinez Arena in Griffith Park in Los Angeles on July 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) When you look at your garden beds ...

Sometimes, a seemingly gentle nudge can hit the rawest of nerves. And it seems that last week’s gentle diatribe on the constantly perplexing practice of volcano mulching was just that kind of nudge.

The color of mulch can affect how it works in your garden. There are instances when black mulch will be better suited to use ...

Protect perennial beds from winter weather using leaves, pine needles, and other garden leftovers you would normally throw away.

Fallen leaves make a fine mulch for garden beds and trees and shrubs, but they aren’t the only possibility. “Any kind of organic matter can make a good mulch,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge ...