A long-lasting mulch option can boost your garden's look and performance, but it comes with trade-offs worth weighing before ...

Who knew a bag of mulch could contain so much hysteria? As in, open the bag and let loose the mother of all termites to devour your precious home. In an anonymous e-mail in wide circulation, the ...

Mulches, in general, are rarely eaten by termites. Despite the extremely widespread use of mulches in beds across the southeast, there are no widespread reports of problems with termites associated ...

Q: I was out poking around the garden beds on one of those recent warm days and noticed a nest of skinny winged insects crawling in the mulch. I was concerned that they might be termites, so I looked ...

The termites are coming! The termites are coming! But they aren’t coming in mulch harvested from trees downed by Katrina in the Gulf Coast region. They come every spring. In what may be the greatest e ...

Don't you just love that feeling of tucking your plants in for winter by placing a nice layer of mulch around them? It benefits your plants by suppressing disease, protecting bare soil from erosion, ...

Gardeners everywhere extol the benefits of mulch to help suppress weeds, retain moisture in the soil, and regulate soil temperature. Some types of mulch can even add nutrients and enrich the soil.