Q. Are there more sustainable options than plastic for weed barriers in a garden and for pathways? With so much plastic ending up in oceans and in our food, it would be nice to use alternative ...

The author’s garden midway through the growing season, full of vegetables and pest-repelling flowers. How long does cardboard take to decompose? Find answers to using a cardboard weed barrier in your ...

Have extra cardboard boxes from online shopping? Don’t throw them away. Reuse them in your garden or yard as a low-cost way ...

Columnist Bill Pramuk explains the effects of weed barrier fabric on plants, providing some alternative methods.

You may know Bishop’s Weed, Aegopodium podagraria, a member of the carrot family, as goutweed, ground elder and snow-on-the-mountain. Native to Europe and northern Asia, it was brought to North ...