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 ...

While weeds seem inevitable, they can be preventable if you’re prepared. One easy, inexpensive method? Using cardboard in ...

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 ...

A TikToker gardener demonstrated their brilliant mulching method that is inexpensive and easy to follow. Jay (@jaysgardenjournal) showed her followers sheet-mulching, a tried-and-true way to expand ...