Prevents weeds: Gardening expert Janet Mavec notes that mulch can help suppress weeds. Mulch prevents sunlight from reaching ...

Feeding them into a wood chipper to make fresh mulch is better. Powered by either a gas or electric motor, wood chippers use ...

Mulch, of course, has aesthetic benefits too. Nothing dresses up a flower bed or vegetable garden like some fresh mulch. In shady areas beneath trees, most turfgrasses struggle to grow ...

has guidelines for the content of mulch. Look for its seal on bags. Fresh wood chips. Tree-trimming crews use shredders to reduce branches to coarse wood chips. Sometimes homeowners can get a load ...

While mulch does decompose, you do not want to accumulate excessive mulch year after year by adding fresh mulch every spring. If you want the look of fresh mulch, break up the old with a rake ...

winter will make a return before this is all over), everyone’s firing up the mulch wagons and getting ready to cover everything from here to there with a fresh layer of mulch just in time for ...

I would not recommend adding fresh wood chips directly to your garden soil. Compost is useful in revitalizing your garden because it contains readily available nutrients, providing benefits to ...

But when it’s hot and steamy and you’re putting fresh mulch up against herbaceous plants, you can damage the tender, new growth, especially in spring, says Hirvela. Be cognizant of the risk ...

Mulch is about more than aesthetics, and now's the time to add,or refresh materials.