Here's a very interesting lemon growing method I saw when travelling overseas in Southern Italy (Sorrento). A lemon farm fertilised their lemon trees with fresh manure! In this video, I compare my ...

The smell of spring is in the air in Greater Columbus — not the smell of hyacinths or daffodils, but the smell of freshly applied hardwood mulch around trees and shrubs and other perennial plants.

While spring and summer have traditionally been the busy times of the year for spreading mulch around trees, shrubs and other perennial plants, more homeowners and landscapers are spreading mulch in ...

Twenty years ago a tree surrounded by wood chips was rare indeed. Today the practice is commonplace, for a number of very good reasons: Replacing grass around a tree with mulch allows the tree more ...

Don’t beat the lower trunk area of a tree with the lawn mower or string trimmer. Nothing will kill a tree quicker than severing the cambium or growth layer. The cambium layer is the vascular system of ...

As you know, I love to garden, but I don't like to do work needlessly. If I can find a gardening technique that saves me time, effort and money -- well, I'm there. And you can't find a better example ...