Make your plants healthy and happy (and your life easier) by choosing the best mulch for your landscape. The right mulch will help your plants and trees stay healthy by retaining soil moisture and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe_Potato / Getty Images Mulch helps create a uniform look, regulates moisture and temperature levels, and prevents weed growth.

Though mulch's main purpose is to preserve moisture and deter weed growth, it also has an aesthetic function, and so the available choices are sometimes the source of disagreement. Some prefer to take ...