Alpharetta Pine Straw

Fantastic Fall Container Garden Ideas

Add beauty to your fall garden or landscape with these gorgeous container gardening ideas.

Why is It Important To Use Mulch In Landscapes and gardens?

Mulch will help your garden become healthier and resistant to diseases. Mulch helps protect the soil from the sun which helps prevent evaporation of water.

Why Fall Is The Best Time To Plant Shrubs and Trees

This article explains why fall is one of the best seasons to plant shrubs and trees.

4 Reasons HOA, Retail Property and Office Parks Needs Mulch

Where there are trees, shrubs and flowers, there is mulch. Keeping the grounds where these plants live healthy is key as there’s much more to mulch than aesthetics. Mulching is an annual landscape maintenance necessity. Here’s 4 reasons why your Ohio HOA or commercial property needs mulch.

How Pine Needles Help the Garden

6 reasons to use pine needle mulch. Tilling pine needles into the garden. Using pine needles as mulch in the vegetable garden. What plants do not like pine needles. Pine straw mulch pros and cons. 11_

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Water-Based Color Concentrate Can Freshen Landscapes

EnviroColor hopes for broader national distribution as more Southern contractors begin using its product to liven up mulch and pine straw.

Commentary: When is a pine cone not a pine cone?

FARGO — It sounds like an interesting riddle: When is a pine cone not a pine cone? The answer: When it's growing on a spruce.In last week's Fielding Questions, I missed a great opportunity to mention the importance of differentiating between evergreens, which resulted in spruce cones being called pine...

The Last Straw for Straws?

California lawmakers approved a bill that would restrict plastic straws statewide, a move some opponents called "nanny state" legislation.

How to Use Straw in the Garden

A new use of straw bales -- at least to me -- is the practice of planting crops directly into the bales, or straw bale gardening as it's come to be known.

Want to ditch plastic straws? Consider these.

Americans employ more than 100 million single-use plastic straws a day. To cut back, try a reusable one made of bamboo, titanium, or glass.

How to banish plastic straws from your life forever

You'll never need another plastic straw after you read this.

The last (plastic) straw: How one woman launched a movement

A straw is not just a straw. According to Jackie Nuñez, it’s a symbol of a world gone blind to plastic.

DIY with Michele Brown: Using pine trees to make something amazing

From pine needles to pine cones, there are plenty of options!

Things You Are Allowed to Do Now That You Use Paper Straws

Now you can help the glaciers along by melting them with a hair dryer, Uber four blocks because it’s raining a little, and more.

11 Reasons to Live in a House of Straw

Don’t be fooled by the old folk tale. Straw bales are a strong, functional and good-looking building material

New garden technique grows plants in straw bales

AKRON, Ohio — When Joel Karsten was growing up on a farm in Minnesota, he noticed how lushly weeds grew from rotting bales of straw. That made him wonder: If straw worked so well for growing …