Gardening for wildlife is much more fun and relaxing than gardening purely for beauty or to keep up with your neighbors’ expectations for yards in the neighborhood. A landscape with perfectly trimmed trees and shrubs and annuals lined up in rows like soldiers may be pretty, but it is rather sterile. Add some [Continue]
Mulch offers many benefits to plants during the growing season and it is equally important to mulch plants over the winter. You may think that the purpose of winter mulch is to keep your plants warm but it is actually just the opposite. Mulch should be applied after the ground freezes, usually around Thanksgiving. [Continue]