Mulching is vital fall prep to ensure our garden soil is at optimum health come spring. Covering bare soil is a way of ...

Laying down cardboard mulch before each growing season cuts down on weeds while enriching the soil without heavy digging. Does anyone remember Ruth Stout? Over a half-century ago, she pioneered what ...

Don’t ditch those cardboard boxes; instead, put them to use in your garden, smothering out weeds, creating perfectly prepared soil, and composting in the process. “Using cardboard is a sustainable ...

Gardening expert Amy May has shared a simple and effective way to prepare your garden for winter. The easy 'cardboard method' ...

What is this bug that has been showing up in my garden? Last week I saw it on milkweed. While it has a nicely ghoulish name for this time of year, the twice-stabbed stink bug is actually winding down ...

Horticulturist Daniel Cunningham plants a Vitex (Texas lilac) after creating a new flower bed by using sheet mulching at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Dallas. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer ...

Gardening might seem simple, but even seasoned gardeners sometimes get stuck on the details. Take mulching, for example — ...

Cardboard is biodegradable and safe to compost, but it can only be recycled a limited number of times before it becomes too degraded to be remade into new paper products. However, cardboard has ...

One of our roles as Master Gardeners is to answer gardening questions from local residents. Since watering restrictions have been in place, one of the questions I frequently get asked is how to remove ...

Green-fingered Brits are being urged to put sheets of cardboard in their gardens during the coldest months of the year.