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It is gardening time or, at least, gardening planning time. Few things are better to dream about reaping from your garden than fresh strawberries, so pick up some red mulch and you'll grow the ...

It is the time of year when weekends are for planting, pruning and mulching. When rain faded a Harnett County couple's hard work, they called Five On Your Side's Monica Laliberte for help. Red-dyed ...

Choosing the best type of mulch for your garden is no easy task. To start, you have many material options, including organic and inorganic mulches. Once you narrow it down, you still have to choose ...

To that part of me that sees my vegetable garden as a bastion of natural processes, plastic mulch has always seemed a synthetic intrusion. The scientifically curious and greedy parts of me, though, ...

James Wong’s latest book, Grow for Flavour, has received terrific reviews. Not surprising, really – he has read about 2,800 peer-reviewed scientific studies, and personally tested any ideas that ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - “It’s time to mulch,” said Stephen Brueggerhoff with Texas A&M AgriLife. “Mulch provides a great benefit to the garden. It provides a little bit of water conservation, ...

It may seem trivial, but home gardeners who choose to use plastic mulch may want to note the advantages that research has shown for colored mulches over the more traditional black plastic mulch.