It is gardening time or, at least, gardening planning time. Few things are better to dream about reaping from your garden than fresh strawberries, so pick up some red mulch and you'll grow the ...

James Wong’s latest book, Grow for Flavour, has received terrific reviews. Not surprising, really – he has read about 2,800 peer-reviewed scientific studies, and personally tested any ideas that ...

Choosing the best type of mulch for your garden is no easy task. To start, you have many material options, including organic and inorganic mulches. Once you narrow it down, you still have to choose ...

It is the time of year when weekends are for planting, pruning and mulching. When rain faded a Harnett County couple's hard work, they called Five On Your Side's Monica Laliberte for help. Red-dyed ...

To that part of me that sees my vegetable garden as a bastion of natural processes, plastic mulch has always seemed a synthetic intrusion. The scientifically curious and greedy parts of me, though, ...

There are two main reasons why people include mulch in their landscaping: for practical benefits (like weed and erosion prevention) and for aesthetics. Most mulch comes in black, brown, or red. If you ...