If you’ve ever tried to keep your crops alive through the cold bite of winter, you know it’s a battle between frost and survival. Many gardeners and farmers reach for plastic mulch because it looks ...

Strawberry growers spend months coaxing out those juicy, ruby-red jewels, only to watch them fall victim to heat, weeds, rot, or hungry wildlife. Garden centers may recommend plastic mulch sheets for ...

It may seem trivial, but home gardeners who choose to use plastic mulch may want to note the advantages that research has shown for colored mulches over the more traditional black plastic mulch.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person installing weed control landscaping fabric in garden - Ingrid Balabanova/Shutterstock When it comes to getting rid of weeds ...

As a crucial agricultural yield-increasing technique in arid and semi-arid regions, plastic film mulching (PFM) has significantly enhanced crop yield and quality by increasing soil temperature, ...

Rows of biodegradable mulch. Credit: Remsberg Inc. Do you want to hear about a strange journey of a single plastic film, as I have witnessed it, first as a child in rural Nepal, and now as a vegetable ...

Whether you’re a home gardener or an industrial farmer, you might be familiar with mulching films — plastic sheets laid over the soil to protect seedlings and promote crop growth. But like many other ...

To mulch, or not to mulch — that seems to be the question. You will find advocates on both sides of the debate. Gardening is not an exact science, and you can find theories to support various ...

Gardening expert explains how covering tomato soil with natural materials like straw or newspaper can prevent destructive ...