Mulching is an essential gardening task. Taking the time and effort to put down mulch around your plants will reward you with a healthier, more resilient garden. Mulch plays a crucial role in helping ...

A gardener shovels mulch into garden beds around his home. - Georgepeters/Getty Images A good layer of organic mulch can suppress weeds, regulate soil temperatures, and help retain moisture so you don ...

Mulch is a common landscaping tool, but properly utilizing mulch can be tricky. One Reddit user took to the r/Baltimore subreddit to advise community members about the dangers of using too much mulch ...

Twenty years ago a tree surrounded by wood chips was rare indeed. Today the practice is commonplace, for a number of very good reasons: Replacing grass around a tree with mulch allows the tree more ...

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 many Oklahomans, it’s time to put away your lights, your stockings and perhaps most dauntingly, your Christmas tree. If you’ve been rockin’ around a live Christmas tree, it could have another life ...

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks. A: Those “mulch ...

A Redditor was left wondering if their tree had too much mulch. A post on the r/landscaping subreddit showed the common landscaping faux pas known as a mulch volcano. A heap of mulch at the base of a ...