"Possibility of contamination." Home gardener warned after sharing video of harmful landscaping mistake: 'I would not recommend using it' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Inorganic mulch, or synthetic mulch, includes black plastic, rubber, geotextiles, landscape fabrics or stones such as pebbles, gravel or small rocks.

If you plan to insulate soil with mulch before the seasons change, first learn which types of mulch best meets your needs.

Mulch benefits your garden in many different ways. Here's how to best put it to use. ... such as gravel or rubber, offer long-lasting coverage. Mulch fills many important functions such as weed ...

Key Takeaways. Mulch installation averages $100 per cubic yard, including delivery and installation.; Two mulch categories exist: organic and inorganic. Organic options like straw or wood chips ...

The only foul call on pine fines as a mulch is that it is not a great product for a garden bed that sits on any kind of slope. A heavy Kentucky rain can send your pine fines down the driveway and ...

However, an exception to this is citrus, which grows best without mulch on the surface above the roots. Newly installed pine straw neatly defines landscaping beds. Controlling disease and ...

Finally, regardless of your mulch of choice, please, no mulch volcanoes around the base of trees and no more than 2-inches of mulch on any bed. Either one earns an immediate Flagrant-1 foul call!

American drivers wear out nearly 300 million tires annually. That’s a lot of rubber to find a use for. One solution is to shred it, dye it, spread it around plants and call it mulch.