Compost and wood chips make an excellent team when it comes to creating a potting mix. Compost adds essential nutrients and enhances soil fertility, while wood chips work like perlite or vermiculite, ...

Key Takeaways Healthy soil should be prioritized, but sometimes pre-made fertilizer is better than a home hack.Rather than ...

HICKORY — Just in time for fall, the city of Hickory will soon begin its sales of mulch and leaf compost. Mulch and leaf compost will be available beginning Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16 and 17 ...

Planting a peach tree in your yard puts fresh, ripe peaches within reach. Among fruit trees, peaches (as well as apricots and nectarines) are ideal candidates for growing from seed. All you need are ...

By J.J. Barrett Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I hope everyone has survived the sweltering heat of this week in ...

Its fruits have a diameter of four to five centimetres, are fairly spherical, and are slightly meaty. The fruits, which are ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I hope everyone has survived the sweltering heat of this week in late June. I ...

A stream begins long before your property line and flows far beyond it.” ...

We saw die-back in trees coming out of winter. In some cases, it is environmental stress from drought stress and winter ...

It may be wood chips, bark, rock, straw, lawn clippings, cardboard, leaf debris, rubber or plastic sheets. The importance for the use of mulch is multi-fold: • It helps with water retention.