Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard too steep to mow safely and too large to easily dig up and replant ...

You can almost hear it: the crunch of crisping lawns all over L.A., thanks to the ongoing drought and recent restrictions on outdoor watering. It’s no surprise, then, that many Angelenos are thinking ...

Have extra cardboard boxes from online shopping? Don’t throw them away. You can reuse them in your garden or yard as a low-cost way to stop weeds and enrich your soil. Using cardboard as a weed ...

In my recent column about lawn care, I stated that many gardeners are trading in expanses of lawn for garden beds. Creating more space for flowers, edibles and native plants is an admirable goal, but ...

If you are like many home gardeners, you may be looking for ways to repurpose some of your turfgrass into perennial beds. The easiest and most efficient way to accomplish this is to use the sheet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteers lay cardboard and wood-chip mulch at a sheet mulching workshop/work session on June 25 to help the Maryknoll Sisters of ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard that was too steep to safely mow, and too large to easily dig up ...