Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you spend a lot of time in your yard, you’ll know firsthand how important and meaningful it is to take care of the outdoors.

Talk to any professional gardener at this time of year about what we should be doing in our yards, and they will all tell you the same thing: mulching garden beds. Mulching is vital fall prep to ...

Do you have excess cardboard lying around your home? Rather than throwing it away, consider using it in your garden. Cardboard is made from wood fibers and processed into a thin, strong sheet. It is ...

Flush with cardboard, the author adopts the common practice of using it as a mulching medium. Is cardboard mulch toxic? Recent research shows PFAS can accumulate in crop vegetables. A simple home test ...

Growing your own vegetables and flowers is both eco-friendly and budget-friendly, but purchasing new and one-use garden products isn't. That's why giving materials you already have on hand a new life ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. A year and a half ago I planted several 5-gallon fruit trees, including avocado and stone fruit selections, that are now eight feet tall. I have done ...

The author’s garden midway through the growing season, full of vegetables and pest-repelling flowers. How long does cardboard take to decompose? Find answers to using a cardboard as weed barrier in ...

Have extra cardboard boxes from online shopping? Don’t throw them away. You can reuse them in your garden or yard as a low-cost way to stop weeds and enrich your soil. Using cardboard as a weed ...

Q. Are there more sustainable options than plastic for weed barriers in a garden and for pathways? With so much plastic ending up in oceans and in our food, it would be nice to use alternative ...