mulch
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How to Find Free (or Cheap) Soil for Your Raised Garden Beds
Many gardeners like to use raised beds to grow their bounty — they create a lovely border, limit weeds, and are easier on your back — but they can also be quite costly to fill, especially if they’re more than a foot high. You don’t need to buy several bags of soil to get good…
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Everything You Should Be Doing Now for a Better Garden Next Spring
Gardening may seem like a warm-weather activity, but for best results, it’s actually a year-round endeavour. Just because the ground is frozen and very little is blooming right now doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do. Use this time — while you’re not overwhelmed with planting, watering, managing, and harvesting — to set yourself up for…
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Ditch These Tacky, Outdated Landscaping ‘Trends’
We recently advised you that certain types of landscaping can help (or hurt) your home’s resale value. (Steer clear of spikey plants! Avoid invasive species! Don’t plant too many trees!) But another way to potentially boost the value of your home — or at least its curb appeal — is to remove or refrain from…
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How to Use Mulch in Your Flowerbeds and Garden
If you read a lot of gardening how-to articles — including the ones on this site — you’ve probably noticed that mulch comes up a lot. Its ability to help your plants hydrated, as well as to keep weeds a bay make mulch a popular (albeit stinky) gardening supply.