General maintenance of pathways, especially during winter, can protect your landscape from potential issues. Old leaves and ...

WASHINGTON — The Mt. Vernon Trail is one of the city’s most popular routes for running, walking and cycling, but some people think its improvements could force cyclists onto narrow sections covered ...

Forget using newspaper to line the bottom of your bird cage. Instead, use papers to mulch your garden. Put down four or five layers of newsprint around your plants and watch weeds bite the dust. To ...

Ray and Jennifer O’Brien bought their North End home in 2003, just a year before the hurricane onslaught that brought Jeanne and Frances. They didn’t think much of the existing landscape style of turf ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If all you've heard about mulch is bad puns like ...

You've weeded. You've planted. And if you mulched, you've put to use a practical gardening tool no Houston garden should be without. But which mulch is best? Their texture, color and price vary, and ...