Mulching is always important as part of any fall gardening checklist, especially if you have newly-planted trees or shrubs. To help you decide what is best for your garden, this guide examines five ...

Mulching protects perennials from cold temperatures and helps maintain moisture. But this common mistake could kill your ...

As you're prepping your garden for its winter slumber (or even introducing new plants for a winter vegetable garden), you ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota is in the thick of fall and the leaf piles are growing. Busy outside his home for the second day in a row, Mark Hawkinson at least has a plan for all the leaves that keep ...

Chop your leaves and use them to enhance your soil. Have a great yard. Save energy by not requiring a big yard waste truck to ...

I realize March ended at midnight on Friday but since so many of us are still firmly entranced by both the men’s and women’s college basketball March Madness, you'll forgive me for helping myself to a ...

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center announced today a campaign to inspire homeowners and landowners to put down the rake and leaves some leaves on the ground this fall to improve soil, support ...

The gardening literature includes a wide range of instructions for implementing this process, which is also referred to as ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022. We are republishing it ahead of spring landscaping season. Most of us know that smell: fresh mulch. Similar to the scent of freshly cut ...

Somehow, astonishingly, it’s November. My Jack-o’-lanterns are shriveling, the holidays are speeding toward us and this month’s edition of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter is jam-packed with garden ...

Thousands of volunteers are expected to donate their time to clean up and improve 95 Austin parks on November 1st as part of ...