Learn how to use cow manure for garden endeavors to create a mat that suppresses weeds (such as for bindweed control), fertilizes, and conserves water in your garden. This approach also contributes to ...

For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. That's no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department ...

Spring projects sprout this time of year. March is a good time to restore and rejuvenate an old lawn, start some raised beds for vegetables and weed and mulch the flower and shrub beds to keep out ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

Compost and mulch. Both are great soil conditioners, but how do they differ? Each serves as a time-release fertilizer and insulator. When augmented with livestock and poultry manure, nutrient-rich ...

Question: I got a load of “composted” horse manure for my garden from my friend. It looks to me that it isn’t really composted all the way as there are “apples” of manure in it. Can I just put it in ...

They have chosen their plants. The cashiers scan the plant tags, and often ask, “Do you have the compost (or mulch or potting mix) you’ll need?” Those questions are more than add-on sales techniques.

Mulch is so basic to gardening that it’s become a verb. To mulch. It can even be conjugated. I mulch, he mulches, nous mulchons. In fact, mulch is a noun derived from some kind of old German or Middle ...