Almost all vegetables in your garden benefit from most any type of mulch. Each type has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. Mulch is classified broadly into two categories — organic and ...

China has led the world in using plastic-film mulch to increase the productivity of its crops, and now it needs to lead the world in removing the plastic residue damaging its croplands, according to a ...

A suite of at least 10 genes in a tomato plant behaves differently depending on the farmer’s mulch-and-fertilizer routine, according to an unusual analysis. Earlier work showed that when researchers ...

Q: I have heard that planting a butterfly bush is the best to attract butterflies. Is this true or are there better choices for attracting butterflies and other pollinators to my yard? It is true that ...

Q: Our petunias have been blooming for several weeks, thanks to our AeroGarden. — Nancy Edmonds Hanson, Moorhead. A: When I saw Nancy’s recent day-brightening post on Facebook, showing an indoor ...

One tip to warming the soils if you want to plant tomatoes early is to put down a layer of black plastic. When the temperatures warm up, cover that plastic with mulch to avoid overheating. Courtesy ...

Q: Can you remind us what you put on top of your soil to make your watermelons grow so well? Is it some sort of mulch? — Cassie L. A: Pioneering research was conducted at North Dakota State University ...

For close to a decade, Michel Frigon struggled with his corn crop. He had volume, but not quality, making it hard to feed the cows on his dairy farm in Albanel, Que., about 150 kilometres northwest of ...

Consumers are sometimes shocked to find that organic standards allow for the use of plastic mulch on organic farms. After all plastic polymers are synthetic petrochemical products and not “natural”.

MIAMI, FL—Plastic mulches have been used in vegetable production in the United States since the 1950s. Black plastic (polyethylene) mulch, which alters the plant's growing environment by generating ...

WAYLAND, MI — Bill Scobey owns a 78-acre farm in Wayland, and for over 40 years, he's taken his produce south to sell at Kalamazoo-area farmer's markets. He takes the plastic mulch — pulled and rolled ...