Starting a vegetable garden can be a rewarding prospect for any homeowner. In addition to having fresh veggies on the ready, digging in the dirt has big health benefits. Though yanking out weeds might ...

In some areas of the country, the choice between mulching with pine needles and wood mulch is a tough one. Since the 1980s, pine straw has been the favorite mulch in the South. It is inexpensive, ...

Pine straw is an organic mulch made from fallen pine needles, explains Mary Jane Duford, founder of the beginner gardening blog Home for the Harvest. Like any garden mulch, pine needles create a ...

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Gardening experts explain why mulch is important in the winter, when and how much to apply, and the benefits of mulch.

A mulch is a material, usually organic but sometimes inorganic, that we use to cover the soil surface around plants. Organic mulches, such as leaves, pine straw, processed bark, processed wood, dry ...

Gardeners know that mulch is a great-looking layer of topping on the soil in gardens and landscapes, but mulch is so much more than just a decorative cover. Mirroring the leaf layer found on a forest ...

Wood mulch and wood chips will mat down to make a firm but spongy surface for your garden paths and around playsets. Pine straw is too slippery to walk on, so skip it when mulching these high-traffic ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. I took some elephant ears and banana plants from Thibodaux and planted them at ...

As you're prepping your garden for its winter slumber (or even introducing new plants for a winter vegetable garden), you might want to add an unexpected to-do to your fall gardening checklist: ...