Is Lawn Mulching Good for Your Yard?

Gloved holding grass clippings from a lawn mower.When you think of mulch, what do you picture? Wood chips? Rock? Gravel? There are many types of mulch, but there’s only one that you’ll always have right in your backyard — lawn mulch. Lawn mulch is a kind of organic mulch made up of grass clippings and leaves. You can spread this mixture of grass clippings and finely shredded leaves across your yard —the result is a healthy, lush lawn using materials that come straight from the source. Continue reading Is Lawn Mulching Good for Your Yard?

4 Tips to Managing Your Landscape During Late Summer

Summer straw hat with blue ribbon and dots lay at dry end summer grass.If you’ve been neglecting lawn care this summer, managing your landscape late season may seem like a fruitless effort with cold weather on the horizon. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s the perfect opportunity to play catch-up on the lawncare tasks you couldn’t get around to earlier in the season. What you do now can nurture better growth next spring. Let’s review some tips on managing your landscape during late summer. Continue reading 4 Tips to Managing Your Landscape During Late Summer

Got Mulch? Why Mulch is Good for Your Garden

A man prepares to mulch a flower garden to conserve moisture control weeds and insulate plants. Wearing gloves he's opening a bag of cypress mulch.Mulch is a groundcover product made from tree bark and wood chips that is common both in residential homes and commercial centers. No one can deny that a mulch covering on a garden or planting display can provide great aesthetics to your landscape, but this is only one of the perks. Mulch isn’t just designed to improve the look of your landscaping, but to promote the health of your plants in several ways. Let’s look at three other ways mulch makes everything better. Continue reading Got Mulch? Why Mulch is Good for Your Garden