Agricultural engineers have developed the erosion control industry's first cotton hydromulch "spray-on blanket." Hydromulch is the bright-green mulch used in spray-on slurries that cover bare lands at ...

Sick of weeding or watering your garden all the time? Are you losing plants ...

Do you utilize mulch in the garden? If you do, that’s great! If you don’t, you should consider adding mulch to the garden, as there are many benefits. Benefits of mulch include preserving moisture, ...

Mulch provides a variety of benefits for gardens, including weed control, temperature regulation, and moisture retention. Organic mulches, like compost and wood chips, decompose over time, enriching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hands in garden gloves holding mulch. There are many schools of thought regarding garden mulch. The debate continues as to when, ...

If you could control weeds, conserve soil moisture and reduce soil erosion with one practice, wouldn't you be interested? All the mulches I'll describe in this and the next column can help you ...

Mulching is one of the most accessible and effective conservation practices available to small-scale and urban farmers.

A rose by any other name may still be a rose, but mulches need defining. There are 17 different materials considered on the University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management website, and ...

If the smell of fresh mulch is in the air, it must be early spring in Greater Columbus. As soon the snow melts and the first warm sunny day appears, gardeners head for their local garden center where ...