Hurricane Hermine left us with lots of yard trash. But it’s not all bad. This presents a good opportunity to obtain lots of relatively clean and chemical free mulch for your yard and garden. Wood ...

Horticulturist Daniel Cunningham plants a Vitex (Texas lilac) after creating a new flower bed by using sheet mulching at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer ...

Experts offer step-by-step instructions for annihilating weeds and identify a stunning and fragrant spring azalea to add to your garden. EDNA ASKS: Last year I saw a stunning ornamental grass that ...

In all its variations, mulch is a garden's and gardener's best friend. You can shred all of those autumn leaves or use another type of mulch to feed your lawn, enrich the soil in the vegetable garden, ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard that was too steep to safely mow, and too large to easily dig up ...

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 ...

DEAR JESSICA: About 10 years ago, we purchased a hybrid hibiscus from a shopping channel that did not require that it be brought in during winter months. We left it planted in our yard year-round, and ...

Many years ago early in my agriculture/gardening career, I discovered a book written by a woman who developed a novel way of gardening. Ruth Stout’s gardening technique involved applying layers of ...

While it’s best to leave grass clippings on the lawn when mowing, if mulch is needed for a vegetable or flower garden; go ahead and catch clippings now and then for this purpose. Using grass as mulch ...

Mulch does matter, especially here in the Yakima Valley where we are experiencing hot weather, drought conditions, and water strains and restrictions. Today we look at important reasons to add mulch ...