Capitalize on every inch of your backyard, from sun to shade, with these ground cover ideas to fill otherwise empty areas.

Covering garden beds in winter protects against frost damage or soil erosion. The best time to cover beds is after the ground freezes but before heavy snow. Lightweight mulch such as shredded bark is ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Covering plants for good health is not new. Gardeners were popping ...

Vegetable gardening in 95-degree heat and unrelenting humidity all summer is not for the faint of heart. To top off the sweltering conditions, here in the Panhandle we have intense pest pressure on ...

A bumblebee dangles from a flower of crimson clover, a valuable soil-building cover crop that can be easily hand-seeded into vegetable garden beds. A bumblebee dangles from a flower of crimson clover, ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...