Spring planting in mulch helps control weeds, including reducing the need to weed as much. Few weeds will come up through a 4-inch layer of hay. In spring we plant several crops into hay mulch to help ...

My garden sure wood be nothing without mulch! Like choosing the right plant for the right place, mulch should match the conditions and plants growing in your garden. Mulch can be plant-based: compost, ...

MADISON, Minn. — Ever since Carmen Fernholz stopped raising hogs, he has been searching for another nutrient source for his farm’s 480 organic acres. He thinks he's found it in alfalfa. Fernholz is ...

The dictionary says that mulch is anything you lay on top of the soil to protect it. Protect it from what, though? Sun and rain, that's what. Sun beating down on bare soil results in temperatures hot ...