Maintaining a garden can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Between watering and pulling up pesky weeds, your gardening to-do list probably feels endless. Of course, working in the yard is pretty ...

Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except -- it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living mulch is a system farmers can use to benefit both profits and the soil ...

I've lived and gardened in a lot of places, and I've seen a lot of mulch. You name it: wood chips, pine bark, shredded cypress, pinestraw, hay, straw, newspaper, rubber pellets, sawdust, cocoa hulls, ...

That’s a decision that growing numbers of gardeners are adopting. Instead of hauling in endless bags of bark or shredded and dyed wood, they fill the empty soil in their gardens with perennial plants.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A primary challenge of managing vegetable production on a small land base is the maintenance and building of soil quality. Previous studies ...

My garden sure wood be nothing without mulch! Like choosing the right plant for the right place, mulch should match the conditions and plants growing in your garden. Mulch can be plant-based: compost, ...

August 31, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Mulch is miraculous stuff. It keeps weeds at bay, fertilizes the soil, and minimizes the effects of too-hot (or ...

Who doesn’t like a two-for-one deal, or a double-double, win-win? A team of USDA scientists in the upper Midwest is working on a double-cropping system that is showing promise as a way to improve a ...

Twelve winter cover crops were planted in Citra and Live Oak, FL, in 2004, to evaluate their potential for use as living mulches in organic vegetable production: black oat, rye, annual ryegrass, hard ...

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 ...