Suburban Myths: Wood Chip Mulch

For a Painless Gardener, mulch is one of nature’s greatest gifts. + It reduces watering chores by holding in moisture and keeping the sun from drying out the soil surface. + It nearly eliminates back-straining weeding by blocking sunlight from the soil surface and denying weed seeds the solar energy they need to sprout. + [...]

Suburban Myths: Compost Tea

We’ve all heard of widely believed but untrue “facts” that are classified as urban myths or legends, from alligators living in big city sewers to Walt Disney’s head being cryogenically frozen. (They aren’t and it isn’t.) Gardening has its own store of “facts” that are popularly held by many people and yet, according to science, [...]