May is for Mulching: A Guide to Groundcover

Joanne and Brian's Cottage by the Sea Pin it Three and a half decades of city living left me completely unprepared for the importance that mulch would someday have in my life. Now that I have vegetable and native flower gardens, I find myself stalking the local municipal "free wood chips" pile, filling truckload after truckload, pricing out hay bales, and other dirty jobs. But if it keeps our gardens health and weed-free, it's (mostly) worth it...