Mulch may attract termites, but not for the reasons you think. Find out why mulch attracts termites and how to safely use it ...

PROBABLY the biggest mistake most home gardeners will make is either not mulching their gardens or, if they do, using the wrong type of mulch. There are number of important reasons why you should ...

Question: Can you set the myths straight about cypress mulch? Does it keep away termites? Weeds? Is it better than other mulch such as mixed-wood mulch? Answer: Cypress mulch does help to control ...

Q: I have heard that I should not buy cypress mulch from Louisiana because it has termites in it. I thought cypress was naturally resistant to such things. This sounds rather strange to me. What can ...

Mulches, in general, are rarely eaten by termites. Despite the extremely widespread use of mulches in beds across the southeast, there are no widespread reports of problems with termites associated ...

Q: I was out poking around the garden beds on one of those recent warm days and noticed a nest of skinny winged insects crawling in the mulch. I was concerned that they might be termites, so I looked ...

ot sure what kind of mulch to use in your landscape? You're not alone. The choice wasn't easy not so long ago when your options were basically cypress mulch, pine bark and stones. Now gardeners are ...

If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch this year. After the hurricane in New Orleans many trees were blown over. These trees were then turned into mulch and the state is ...

It's durable and organic. But some experts say it involves logging in sensitive wetlands—and that there are better options. Gardeners love cypress mulch for a number of reasons. It's organic and lays ...

The termites are coming! The termites are coming! But they aren’t coming in mulch harvested from trees downed by Katrina in the Gulf Coast region. They come every spring. In what may be the greatest e ...