Tomato plants thrive with the right mulch, and one budget-friendly option sitting in your yard can help improve soil and ...

Do ground-up trees make a good mulch? Here’s a recycling avenue for today’s Earth Day that you might not know about – using ground-up, locally felled trees as landscape mulch. April is prime time to ...

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 ...

Mulch is a material that gardeners use to cover the surface of the soil, and it offers many benefits like retaining moisture, suppressing weeds, and keeping soil temperatures stable. Besides ...

A rose by any other name may still be a rose, but mulches need defining. There are 17 different materials considered on the University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management website, and ...

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 ...

View post: Cameras Catch Leonardo DiCaprio's Reaction to LeBron James Play in Thunder-Lakers Grass clippings provide free, natural nutrients and act as a slow-release fertilizer. Best uses: leave on ...

Nature has a simple and effective process for feeding and enriching the earth. When plants die or drop their leaves, the organic matter decomposes and returns nutrients to the soil. During the winter, ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.