Both pine straw or wood mulch make an excellent mulch for your garden depending on the situation. Here's how to decide when ...
Weeds are the biggest enemy of any beautiful landscape design. If not dealt with regularly, they can overtake an area, stealing valuable resources like sunlight and water from desirable plants and ...
Just because the weather is cooler doesn’t mean weeds have stopped growing — they’re still out there! Mulch blocks sunlight and suppresses weeds, meaning you’ll have fewer weeds to pull in fall and ...
Just like your spring and summer mulching helped keep moisture in the soil, your fall and winter mulch accomplishes the same task.
But I have learned, by painful personal experience, that there is value in the constant scrutiny of the ordinary and mundane.
Before stowing your gardening gloves, discover how mulching in fall can benefit the soil and help plants better handle winter ...
If you’re feeling suddenly overwhelmed by masses of dead leaves in your garden (I know I am), you’ll want to get your hands on a machine that makes light work of clearing them. Garden Force’s Leaf ...
Landscaping trends come and go, but bold and bright colors seem to be a mainstay. There's a new alternative to this trend, ...
Most plants provide the literal fuel to a fire, and they will quickly go up in flames—right next to your house. “Embers and small flames are the main way that the majority of homes ignite in wildfires ...
According to a TikTik post from @CostcoHotFinds, this five-foot-tall version is filled with 24 days worth of delicious, full-sized Lindt chocolates. Not to ruin the surprise too much, but you can ...
As the days grow shorter and a chill fills the air, many gardeners feel a sense of melancholy as they put their outdoor plots ...
Opinion

The wildness of sanctuary

In wildness is the preservation of the world,” Thoreau said. Yet the terms of that wildness remain ambiguous. Maybe that’s as it should be. Maybe the geography of the wild kingdom is too vast, too ...