When it's time to freshen up the mulch in your garden or flower beds, you might find yourself second-guessing your usual choice. When pine straw and pine bark mulch are your two main options, you ...

For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...

Mulch is defined as a protective layer applied over soil to retain moisture, suppress weeds and moderate soil temperature ...

For 17 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens and show beds, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come ...

Mulch helps retain moisture in the soil, regulate soil temperature, and suppress weeds. Composted hardwood bark is an excellent mulch choice for the Northeast, while pine straw and pine fines are ...

I recently had someone help me clean out my landscape beds and put in fresh pine bark mulch. I suggested that they put down about 4 inches of mulch. Was that too much? For very light mulch, such as ...

Mulch helps retain moisture in the soil, regulate soil temperature, and suppress weeds. Composted hardwood bark is an excellent mulch choice for the Northeast, while pine straw and pine fines are ...

Wood mulch and wood chips will mat down to make a firm but spongy surface for your garden paths and around playsets. Pine straw is too slippery to walk on, so skip it when mulching these high-traffic ...

Is there any truth to the claim that pine needle mulch makes soil more acidic, or is it a myth? We looked at the science of ...