It not only drains your wallet, but it also wastes your time and effort. Gardener issues warning on numerous problems with ...

"It's a joke." Experienced landscapers issue warning about consequences of popular weed control product: 'It … will haunt you ...

Oh yes, mulch, something that's very, very, very important. - Okay. - And one of the things I would like to start with is to talk about the plastic type mulch. - Okay. - You know, these here are ...

Scientists have long known that making plastic warms the planet. But plastic may be heating the Earth even more than we realized, according to a report released Wednesday. The Plastics & Climate ...

According to the website Our World in Data, “Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes." By 2020 that number had grown ...

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Mulch is a great garden tool for so many reasons. It’s useful for insulating newly-planted ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

While choosing vibrant blooms is always a highlight, one essential — and often overlooked — element of garden care is mulch. Mark Wilson from the LSU AgCenter has some practical advice and ...

Inorganic mulches don’t decompose and don’t need to be replaced often. They do need to cleaned or blown out regularly. Options are rock, stone, pulverized rubber, plastic, and landscape fabrics.

A mulch is anything that covers the soil. Mulches can be anything from plastic sheeting to sawdust, compost, hazelnut shells, gravel or bark. Different materials provide different functions.

“We couldn’t find anything in the yard, so we started messing around in the mulch. Well, guess what? We started finding all kinds of pieces of plastic, metal, just in the mulch we had put down ...