Every spring, we should take a look at our landscape to determine what clean-up or other preparations we need to do before the heat of the summer gets here. Cleaning up dead plant material, leaves, or ...

Fall foliage is great, until the leaves in your own yard start turning brown and falling, and it's time for a fall clean-up. While the typical process involves raking, blowing, and bagging up your ...

The scents of spring often include the earthy smell of wood-based mulches being applied to landscapes. If you take part in this annual gardening chore, here are some things to know to help you make ...

For more than 20 years we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed redwood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...

BOISE, Idaho — Are you looking for a way to spruce up your home landscape without having to spend a lot of time and energy to do it? A blanket of bark mulch is a great way to make your yard pop with a ...

Gardeners have been known to mulch with ground-up corncobs and nutshells, spent beer hops and coffee grounds. For a more conventional approach, go for the popular aged wood or bark mulches. Or ...

Mulch is commonly used to help suppress weeds and to hold in soil moisture in dry times. There are many different kinds of mulch, and it is important to get the right kind, and to apply it properly if ...

March Madness is a tough topic in the Cappiello household these days. Having grown up on the magic of the Big East tournament in Madison Square Garden, with Al McGuire and Louie Carnesseca roaming the ...

If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

I think I’d be hard pressed to find a gardener unaware of mulch, that stuff you put under plants to help keep down weeds and make your landscape beds look more defined. But there’s more to mulch than ...

For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...