Lush green lawns have long been the anchor of outdoor landscaping. However, with today's focus on protecting our natural ...

With fall and winter weather on the horizon, mulch offers another key benefit: insulating plant and tree roots from the cold.

Planting garlic is easy but protecting them from freezing temperatures and stealth animals that dig them up every year is a ...

To compost or not to compost it? Those fallen pine needles make for great mulch, right? Pine needles, also commonly known as pine straw, have been a popular mulch material in the southern U.S. states ...

A layer of mulch about 3 to 4 inches thick is best. Good organic mulches include wood or bark chips, shredded bark, pine straw, evergreen boughs, clean straw or ground corncobs. Ideally ...

These types of mulch are more resistant to termites than others: - Melaleuca - Cypress heartwood - Pine straw - Cedar - Melaleuca - Cypress heartwood - Pine straw - Cedar No matter the type of ...

Whether you use pine straw, bark or some other material, most types of mulch are natural — so they decompose over time and must be replenished regularly to be most effective and look their best.