McCarty Mulch & Stone Blog
Compost and Soil Amendments
Using compost is a fantastic way to supply your plants with the nutrients they need to grow to their fullest...
Spring Landscaping Ideas with Mulch and Stone
Mulch and stone are a winning combination for Spring landscaping. Mulch most likely comes to mind when you think of...
6 Benefits of Using Compost in Your Garden
Compost is king. If you could only add one amendment to your garden, it would most certainly be composted. There are...
Get Your Garden In Gear For Spring Planting
If you feel the urge to jump into your garden, spade out, and ready to dig into the early Spring’s ground, stop for a...
Early Spring Soil Preparation: When and How?
While everyone loves the arrival of spring, gardeners rejoice. The sun feels warmer, flower buds begin to swell, and...
How to Build Soil in the Winter
How To Build Soil in the Winter The key to any successful garden is healthy, nutritious soil. Good soil provides an...
Four Ways to Prepare Your Garden for the Winter
Your annuals are nearing the end of their lifespan and are starting to feel the cold grasp of the first frosts. After...
What is Mulch used for?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself “Why do we use mulch?” There’s a good chance, if you’ve been working on your...
What is the Best Mulch for Weed Prevention?
The best mulch for weed prevention will depend on a few considerations: what else you need it to do, where it is laid,...
Making the Best Garden Soil
Some gardeners are blessed from the beginning with great garden soil, that’s great! This article is for those of us...
Soil, Landscaping’s Dirty Secret
Why is soil type so important? Soil is a mixture of rocks, minerals, and organic material. The type of soil used in...
What Are the Best Mulches For Your Vegetable Garden?
The Use of Mulch Using mulch in the vegetable garden has not only become very popular but is almost seen as a...
Spring is Here, Time to Mulch! But Which Is the Best For Your Flower Garden?
Mulching is just as much about function as it is about form. Mulching your flower garden is a basic but essential...
5 Ways to Determine the Best Grass Type for Your Lawn
The time and research you take now to determine the right type of grass for your yard could save you a lot of pain...
Driveway Renovation: Gravel vs. Crushed Stone
Does your driveway do your home justice? It could add an aged appearance to an otherwise well-maintained property,...
Mulch or Compost for your Vegetable Garden?
If you’re an avid gardener, then you know nutrient deficiency in soil limits plant growth and crop yield. Using mulch...
Natural Remedies For Fungal Diseases
Most public places offer free hand sanitizer so germs don’t spread. Plants don’t have that luxury. Your plants share...
7 Things You Ought to Know About Mulch
Selecting mulch in today’s market may seem a lot like shopping for ceramic tiles: you have seemingly endless color...
Residential Rubber Mulch: Reduce Landscaping Cost and Maintenance
Rubber mulch is a preferred buffer for playgrounds, sports fields, military training fields and equestrian areas...
Preparing Landscape Beds for Gardening
When you invest in a new home or business, one is generally focused on structural or decorative projects, not the...
Natural Stone Design Trends For Your Landscaping
You’ve purchased your mulch and other landscaping accessories for the new season but something is missing. Maybe you...
Playground Mulch Offers a Softer Surface
Playgrounds are a lot of fun – that is until a child takes a tumble off a swing set or a slide. But when a playground...
3 Easier Alternatives to a Backyard Pond
Your yard needs water. Of course, if you have grass and plants, requires a nice sprinkling on a regular basis. But you...
5 Ways to Use Your Leftover Mulch
Finished spreading this season’s mulch but still have some to spare? Look at that leftover pile as a golden...
Grass Alternatives: When You Want the Lawn to be Gone
Whether you’re selling, buying, or just staying put, curb appeal is likely among your top considerations when it comes...
Working with Mulch: Tricks of the Trade
What’s so hard about mulch? You shovel some around your plants and bushes, and that’s it, right? Not exactly. There...
Which Mulch Should I Use?
As warmer temperatures inspire us to leave our indoor cocoons, thoughts turn to the annual ritual of landscape mulch....
Beautify Your Yard With These Shade-Loving Plants
There’s nothing like a backyard filled with trees to give you much-needed relief during the blazing months of summer....
Which Type of Mulch Is Right for Your Landscape?
It’s time to choose some mulch for your landscape. But which kind do you choose? Bark or wood? Black or Red? Pebbles...
What Mulch Does for Your Landscape
Have you ever wondered why we use mulch? It can seem like an awful lot of work…and wasn’t always the norm. However,...
Do I Need to Mulch Every Year and How Much Mulch Should I Put Down?
Your landscape beds are cleaned out, the lawn is mowed and now it is time for that annual rite of passage here in the...
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