Year-round gardening: Mulch is ideal way to reduce watering, enrich soil and suppress weeds
• Applied to depth of 4 inches, mulch suppresses weeds by blocking sunlight from reaching the soil. Too much mulch, though, ...
What type of mulch is best? Here's four options, broken down by geographic region
Mulch can be almost any loose aggregate material that will stay put and not significantly reduce air exchange out of the soil ...
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What type of mulch is best? Here's four options, broken down by geographic region
Finally, regardless of your mulch of choice, please, no mulch volcanoes around the base of trees and no more than 2-inches of mulch on any bed. Either one earns an immediate Flagrant-1 foul call!
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Mulch Garden Beds for Great Curb Appeal and a Healthy Landscape
What is mulch? It is simply material you use to cover the surface of the soil in your garden beds. Generally people use ...
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Wildfires Pose a Threat to Volcanic Soils in the Peruvian Andes
Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.
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Homeowner panics after seemingly harmless landscaping job backfires: 'One of the best ways to kill a tree'
As a general rule, to maintain a healthy yard with viable trees, you should avoid dirt and mulch volcanoes. Excess mulch and dirt waste money and labor to apply and maintain. You'll spend even more ...
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Homeowner reveals costly landscaping mistake that nearly destroyed their garden: 'A roll of the dice for longevity'
A gardener tried to backtrack after being told his mulching methods would end in tragedy. After being called out for volcano mulch around their trees, two photos show the homeowner's efforts to pull ...