The right choice depends on your long-term gardening goals.

Here's what the gardening expert recommends doing now before it's too late ...

If you're seeing grass sprouting in your mulch beds, you may need to address the root problem: find out how it's spreading, and follow these prevention steps.

Sometimes, a seemingly gentle nudge can hit the rawest of nerves. And it seems that last week’s gentle diatribe on the constantly perplexing practice of volcano mulching was just that kind of nudge.