Pine Straw: Bales of pine needles are lightweight, easy to carry and spread. A pine straw mulch allows plenty of air and water to pass through. It’s useful to minimize slug damage on large-leafed ...

To compost or not to compost it? Those fallen pine needles make for great mulch, right? Pine needles, also commonly known as pine straw, have been a popular mulch material in the southern U.S. states ...

These types of mulch are more resistant to termites than others: - Melaleuca - Cypress heartwood - Pine straw - Cedar - Melaleuca - Cypress heartwood - Pine straw - Cedar No matter the type of ...

When daytime highs are in the 90s, spray during the cooler early morning hours. Pine straw makes a great mulch -- especially if you have pine trees and can get it free. Mulches in beds around ...

Black spots on leaves of roses are a sign that they are suffering from disease, and it must be tackled quickly ...

Helena was devastating to so many areas of the Southeast. Prayers uplifted to those who lost family, friends, and property.

Producing nice heads of rather bland iceberg lettuce is difficult in Texas, but the many types and colors of leaf lettuce are ...

For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have ...

Roses should be checked regularly in autumn as they are vulnerable to a disease that can leave them flowerless and damaged, ...

This weekend's yard jobs include "cleaning up" some of the landscape, building a compost pile, and saying goodbye to the sale ...

Replant divisions at the same depth they were initially. Mulch the area with pine straw for winter protection. Plant pansies ...

I sure am ready for some cool fronts to make their way through the state and relieve the heat and humidity. In the meantime, there are a few things we need to keep up with in the landscape.