Maintaining a garden can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Between watering and pulling up pesky weeds, your gardening to-do list probably feels endless. Of course, working in the yard is pretty ...

Tired of the high cost and effort of spreading mulch under your trees? Here's a fast-growing, white-blooming perennial ground cover you can grow there instead.

I've lived and gardened in a lot of places, and I've seen a lot of mulch. You name it: wood chips, pine bark, shredded cypress, pinestraw, hay, straw, newspaper, rubber pellets, sawdust, cocoa hulls, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A primary challenge of managing vegetable production on a small land base is the maintenance and building of soil quality. Previous studies ...

That’s a decision that growing numbers of gardeners are adopting. Instead of hauling in endless bags of bark or shredded and dyed wood, they fill the empty soil in their gardens with perennial plants.

Who doesn’t like a two-for-one deal, or a double-double, win-win? A team of USDA scientists in the upper Midwest is working on a double-cropping system that is showing promise as a way to improve a ...

Fall is finally here, and it won’t be long before the first frosts creep across our landscapes. If you have an area of garden, lawn or turf that’s hard to manage, try a living or “green” mulch. Why a ...

My garden sure wood be nothing without mulch! Like choosing the right plant for the right place, mulch should match the conditions and plants growing in your garden. Mulch can be plant-based: compost, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of growing in-season agro-ecological service crops as living mulch (LM) with vegetable ...