A few years ago, a gardening friend suggested I place a layer of compost in my flower beds before mulching with my usual shredded bark mulch. As my garden seemed happy and required less care that ...

Every gardener should aim to create a natural and organic home garden, but making this dream a reality isn’t always easy.

Let’s first start with soil. It's the loose stuff on the surface of the ground that covers over half of the earth’s land surface. It’s made up of minerals, organic matter, broken rock particles, many ...

While compost and mulch may seem interchangeable, they have distinctly different uses in sustainable landscaping. Photo courtesy San Diego County Water Authority Seventh in a series republished with ...

Some mulches are better at blocking weeds, some are more attractive, and some contain organic matter that breaks down to ...

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 ...

Compost is a great way to recycle kitchen and garden scraps. It takes organic waste and turns it into nutrient-rich humus that can be used by plants. Composting is a way of returning to the soil what ...

Discover how Mark from Self Sufficient Me creates a productive chicken compost system to enrich soil for planting garlic in ...

It takes time and effort to turn yard waste into mulch and compost. It doesn't help when people put trash in their bins. Here's how to help.