Mulch is a good friend to gardens. It helps soil hold moisture, keeps plant roots cool on hot days, and discourages weeds from sprouting. Many types of mulch add beneficial substances to the earth as ...

“Rock Mulch” would be a great name for a band, but does it make sense in a flowerbed? Mike McGrath will review the reality of trying to prevent weeds with river rock. Plus your fabulous phone calls.

Let’s have a quick show of hands: Who enjoys weeding? It looks like nobody does. The only redeeming quality I find in the job is that it slows me down long enough to check on the plants that I’m ...

Nearly impossible to get rid of and unsightly to look at, weeds are every gardener's worst enemy. One way to minimize their appearance is to grow your plants in raised beds, rather than in the ground.

Prepping garden beds in late fall can help keep pests, weeds, and diseases from away when its time to plant in the spring.

Find out which garden tasks pros do in late fall that take only a few minutes but have a lasting impact during the winter.

Grass can be lovely in your lawn, but when it gets into planting beds, it’s a weed—competing for space and nutrients with your flowers. While you can treat those trespassing grass blades with a ...

Raised gardens are typically filled with a rich, raised bed soil mix made of sand, compost, and topsoil. However, to get even better results from raised bed gardening, you can add other materials to ...

If you’re gardening more but enjoying it less, maybe it’s time to add some labor-saving ideas to that list of New Year’s resolutions. Those can range from downsizing to mulching, from using native ...

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 ...

Would you like to dress up your tree with a garden around it? That’s fine — as long as it consists of compatible plants in the ground, and is not a raised planter. Raised planters are a common sight ...