DIY mulch is a great way to save money and recycle yard waste to enrich your garden soil. Here are some of the best ingredients for your mulch.

How Mulch Benefits Your Garden Using mulch around trees and landscape plantings keeps grass from competing with them for resources.

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!

To create the perfect grassy look around tree roots, you need to plant grasses that do well under those conditions - and here are a few you can choose from.

The solution to prevent mulch volcano damage is to spread mulch properly around the tree while leaving a gap around the base ...

Before you start mulching around your trees and shrubs and in flower beds this spring, check out our tips for how to mulch properly.

It provides answers to selected questions that recently came into the UC Master Gardener – Yolo County Help Desk. Question: What is the best kind of mulch to use in our garden? Should I be concerned ...

Mulch volcanoes come from people making a well-intentioned yet destructive mistake in tree care. When mulch is piled high ...

Twenty years ago a tree surrounded by wood chips was rare indeed. Today the practice is commonplace, for a number of very good reasons: Replacing grass around a tree with mulch allows the tree ...

Applying mulch to bare areas around your landscape and surrounding your trees is best practice, offering benefits such as water retention and temperature regulation.