W ith the gardening season drawing to a close, you might want to consider “dusting” your garden. Adding sawdust, that is. Sawdust is a terrific material for enriching the soil with humus, which ...

Sawdust may be used advantageously to mulch garden plants. Often it is readily available, free or for a small charge, from sawmills and woodworking shops. It makes a good soil conditioner and helps to ...

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Adding mulch to a landscape is as much a design element as a functional aspect of plant growth. Mulching discourages weed growth, insulates plants, conserves moisture, enriches the soil and often ...

Mulching is an important part of garden maintenance. Garden mulch keeps plant roots cool during hot summers and warmer during cold snaps, suppresses weeds, and retains moisture better than bare soil.

Question: I always hear that it is important to mulch the soil before winter. Can you recommend a good mulch for my vegetable beds? How about perennial beds? Thanks. Answer: Good questions for this ...

Covering the ground with a blanket of mulch is one of the easiest, quickest and most effective things you can do to protect, enrich and maintain the beauty and health of your garden. That may not come ...

Mulch is a considered a normal aspect of landscaping. Now is an excellent time to apply mulch around trees, shrubs and barren landscape areas. Pine needles, bark nuggets, ground limbs, twigs and wood ...