mulch

Best practices for this zone require keeping the area free of flammable materials, from plants and bark mulch to wooden fences, wooden patio furniture and even jute doormats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Fix the baseboards, the little dings in the cabinets, the landscaping, the mulch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It has been doing that through grazing cattle, which eat the vegetation, while in other areas land managers have used machines to cut and mulch the grass, gorse, bracken and heather.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

At first, he was happy to keep the fallen trees from being cut into stumps, turned into mulch or sent to landfills, even if that meant just selling the wood as lumber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

The grass was green and neat, the mulch surrounding the various trees bright and woody.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Despite the garden’s neat appearance, Robbins notes that he mulches quite a bit and allows the leaves to decompose to prevent water evaporation and add nutrients to the soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

And, finally, mulch helps to reduce soil erosion, and biodegradable mulches enrich the soil.

From Salon ● May 2, 2022

Microclimates can be created with rock walls and mulches, buildings and fences, and windbreaks created with plants.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Ballard; it mulches mythos on mythos in distinctly Smith-like shapes.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021

Autumn rolled over the countryside as they moved through it: They were now pitching the tent on mulches of fallen leaves.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

That means ensuring they are well watered, properly mulched, kept safe from harm from construction projects or digging, and are treated for potential pest infestations, says Brunner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

The flowers laid at sites across Birmingham in memory of Ozzy Osbourne will be mulched and scattered by his grave.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

Once again, Bautista started by digging up the first inch of Bermuda grass in the front yard by hand and then sheet mulched the lawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

Her plants are organically nurtured in microbe-rich soil and mulched with a winter cover of fava beans.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

Every mouthful she ate was displayed to her admiring younger cousins, half-chewed, mulched, lying on her tongue like fresh vomit.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Scattering straw between vines, known as mulching, is not new, but what has changed is its purpose: from improving general soil health to helping vineyards withstand a warming climate.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

For months, it was just prep work: sheet mulching, teaching and more sheet mulching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Despite that, troops are expected to remain in the nation's capital for the foreseeable future, and many of them can be seen around the city helping with trash collection and mulching.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

As the Washington Post explained the need for military-grade mulching:

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2025

Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond