Mulching is vital fall prep to ensure our garden soil is at optimum health come spring. Covering bare soil is a way of ...

Laying down cardboard mulch before each growing season cuts down on weeds while enriching the soil without heavy digging. Does anyone remember Ruth Stout? Over a half-century ago, she pioneered what ...

Gardening expert Amy May has shared a simple and effective way to prepare your garden for winter. The easy 'cardboard method' ...

What is this bug that has been showing up in my garden? Last week I saw it on milkweed. While it has a nicely ghoulish name for this time of year, the twice-stabbed stink bug is actually winding down ...

Cardboard is biodegradable and safe to compost, but it can only be recycled a limited number of times before it becomes too degraded to be remade into new paper products. However, cardboard has ...

Horticulturist Daniel Cunningham plants a Vitex (Texas lilac) after creating a new flower bed by using sheet mulching at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer ...

Green-fingered Brits are being urged to put sheets of cardboard in their gardens during the coldest months of the year.

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard that was too steep to safely mow, and too large to easily dig up ...

Hurricane Hermine left us with lots of yard trash. But it’s not all bad. This presents a good opportunity to obtain lots of relatively clean and chemical free mulch for your yard and garden. Wood ...