What constitutes a weed is a matter of context and perspective. The same plants that are undesirable for your garden plot may be invaluable to a nearby field. There they grow heartily despite poor ...

Layers of cardboard are placed over an overgrown garden to block sunlight and suppress unwanted growth without herbicides.

You may know Bishop’s Weed, Aegopodium podagraria, a member of the carrot family, as goutweed, ground elder and snow-on-the-mountain. Native to Europe and northern Asia, it was brought to North ...

Weeds don’t politely wait for an invitation. They crash into garden beds, creep through sidewalk cracks, and choke out carefully planted flowers like uninvited guests who refuse to leave. Store-bought ...

It’s great that many people are replacing lawns with low-water landscaping. But along with trees not getting adequate water, one concern is the widespread use of weed-barrier cloth, including at the ...

If you feel like landscape fabric is too expensive or wasteful, grab this item from your bathroom that's functionally similar and serves several purposes.

Q. Should a weed barrier be used beneath cocoa bean shell mulch? A. Avoid using weed barrier under cocoa bean, wood chips and any other organic mulch. As these mulches decompose they form compost, ...

Can I use newspaper as a weed barrier in my vegetable garden? At one time, there were concerns about the use of newspaper as a weed barrier in the garden and landscape because of the inks used.

IF you struggle with pesky weeds invading your garden, and can’t be bothered to use weed barrier fabric, then you might want to raid your recycling bin for some newspaper. A keen gardener took to the ...