mulch Archives - Garden Experiments For the love of gardening and wildlife habitat Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:15:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 https://www.gardenexperiments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png mulch Archives - Garden Experiments 32 32 What is that Smell? Stinkhorn Mushrooms in the Garden https://www.gardenexperiments.com/what-is-that-smell-stinkhorn-mushrooms-in-the-garden/ Wed, 20 May 2020 13:10:01 +0000 /?p=952 If you step outside one day to find a powerful stink in your freshly-laid mulch or new plants and you don’t have a dog, a stinkhorn mushroom might be to blame. This unobtrusive fungi can pop up in wood chips, grass, or soil and they produce a very strong odor. Just like their name implies, […]

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]]> Yellow Slime Mold – The Dog Vomit Fungus https://www.gardenexperiments.com/yellow-slime-mold-the-dog-vomit-fungus/ Fri, 06 May 2016 12:37:52 +0000 http://www.gardenexperiments.com/?p=2729 So you are walking around your yard one day and see a spot of bright yellow in your mulch. What in the world is that? It’s a slime mold! This mold is Fuligo septica the vomit slime mold and it shows up in warm, humid conditions and spreads across the top of the material – usually […]

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]]> What should I do with all of the leaves in my yard? https://www.gardenexperiments.com/what-should-i-do-with-all-of-the-leaves-in-my-yard/ https://www.gardenexperiments.com/what-should-i-do-with-all-of-the-leaves-in-my-yard/#comments Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:15:11 +0000 /?p=935 It’s fall and the leaves are coming down. So what do you do with them? Well, the choices are easy: compost them, chop them up in place, use them as mulch, or bag them up and have them hauled away. When we were kids, we put fall leaves to good use. We spent hours raking […]

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