Look, I’ve been there. You’re standing in the middle of the garden center, staring at a mountain of 2 cu ft mulch bags, scratching your head. You know your flower bed needs a “yard” of mulch, but the bags are sold in cubic feet. Do you buy ten? Twenty? Do you just keep loading the … Read more
I have a pile of mulch sitting in my driveway right now that I didn’t need. It’s been there for three weeks. The homeowners association is sending me letters. My wife is rolling her eyes every time we pull the car in. Why? Because I thought I could “eyeball” it. I stood there at the … Read more
Look, I hate wasting money. There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned cash on a beautiful perennial in July, only to find it heaved out of the ground like a bad tooth in February. It’s not just the cold that kills your plants. It’s the movement. We call it “frost heave,” and it is … Read more
I was driving through my neighborhood last weekend and saw a guy burying his maple tree in a six-foot mound of black-dyed wood chips. I almost pulled the car over. We call those “mulch volcanoes,” and they are a slow-motion death sentence for trees. He probably spent three hundred bucks just to suffocate his own … Read more