Mulch is supposed to make your garden look polished and well-kept, but if you’ve ever ended up with a chaotic, patchy mess, ...

FEED THE LAWN: Apply a fertilizer to your lawn over the next three weeks. Use a lawn fertilizer and follow label directions ...

Here are a few heat tolerant varieties we have tested that are available to home gardeners. Using straw as mulch can help to keep soil cool, which is important for crops like tomatoes and lettuce.

Spring is in the air, garden cleanup is underway and a fresh layer of mulch gives any landscape or garden a clean look while suppressing weeds.

It is an ideal compost for spreading on vegetable gardens as a mulch - and a tree is planted for every compost bag sold. Straw is the dry stalks of cereal plants and the material is a byproduct of ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...

pine bark mulch, pine straw or fallen leaves (oak leaves make an excellent mulch), nitrogen depletion in the soil of the bed is not an issue. The organic matter that is applied on top of the soil ...