Make your plants healthy and happy (and your life easier) by choosing the best mulch for your landscape. The right mulch will help your plants and trees stay healthy by retaining soil moisture and ...

Leaf mulch is ideal for use in garden beds and around trees and shrubs, while grass clippings may be spread in thin layers across vegetable and perennial beds and then turned into the soil at the end ...

I have a heavy clay soil. What is the best way to improve it so my plants will grow better? The most important thing I have ever learned about gardening is this: The key to improving plant growth with ...

Mulching provides numerous benefits to a garden year-round, including regulating the soil temperature, minimizing evaporation in the soil, and protecting the roots. "Mulch is an essential part of ...

The calendar may say spring begins in March, but seasoned gardeners know that timing matters more than dates. Walk through ...

Gardeners agree: Fall mulching is the secret to a healthier garden next spring. As you're prepping your garden for its winter slumber (or even introducing new plants for a winter vegetable garden), ...

As you’re prepping your garden for its winter slumber, you might want to add an unexpected to-do to your fall gardening checklist: mulching. While garden mulching is often associated with spring ...

If the smell of fresh mulch is in the air, it must be early spring in Greater Columbus. As soon the snow melts and the first warm sunny day appears, gardeners head for their local garden center where ...

Welcome to this week’s Home Zone, where I dive into the world of landscaping and discover a unique way to keep your outdoor spaces looking fresh and vibrant. While most homeowners associate mulching ...

Timing is everything.

Tips for home gardeners, from Arboretum veterans: • First step: "A soil test is all-important" to check nutrient levels and needs, said extension horticulturalist Mary Meyer. • Timing is everything.

To prepare your garden for the summer, you should apply mulch around all vegetables, fruits, flowers, vines, shrubs and trees. Ordinarily, May is a suitable time for mulching the warm-season crops.