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Mulch Alternatives for Your Garden

A man is placing straw and hay around his plants as organic mulch alternatives to improve soil health.

Table of Contents   Mulch plays a crucial role in gardening, helping to suppress weeds, retain moisture, and regulate soil temperature. If you’re looking to diversify your gardening practices, consider exploring mulch alternatives. Your choices, ranging from organic materials like wood chips and straw to synthetic options such as rubber and landscape fabric, can provide Read more

Preventing Soil Erosion in Your Landscape

Using rocks effectively in the garden to prevent soil erosion.

Table of Contents   Maintaining a beautiful and thriving landscape requires more than regular watering and weeding. One often overlooked threat to the health of your garden is soil erosion. This natural process, driven by wind and water, can strip away vital topsoil, leaving your plants struggling to survive. Erosion not only robs your soil Read more

Sustainable Mulch: What is it and How to Choose

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Table of Contents Every thriving garden is supported by healthy soil. Mulch plays an important role in maintaining your garden’s soil, serving as a protective layer that conserves moisture, regulates soil temperature, and suppresses weeds. Yet, not all mulch is created equal. As we become more aware of our environmental footprint, the choice of mulching Read more

Spring Lawn Care Tips: How to Prepare Your Lawn for The New Season

A man mows a green lawn on a sunny day. It's spring, and he's taking care of his yard.

Table of Contents   Preparing your lawn for spring is an essential task that ensures your yard looks its best throughout the growing season. During the winter, lawns can suffer from a variety of stresses, including cold temperatures, snow cover, and the compacting effects of snow and ice. These conditions can leave grass weak, damaged, Read more

The Basics of Planting a Garden

The Basics of Planting a Garden

  Planting a garden can be a simple, rewarding and enjoyable experience with many health and environmental benefits. The best part is you don’t need a lot to get started. If you want to start gardening, we have some tips to help you make the most of your experience. In this blog post, we will Read more

How to Apply Mulch to Maximize Plant Growth

Apply Mulch to Maximize Plant Growth

Mulch is an excellent tool for improving the health of your plants and the quality of your garden. Mulch is a layer of material applied to the soil surface around your plants. It serves as a covering to suppress weeds, conserve moisture and regulate soil temperature. As a bonus, mulch can be used to enhance Read more

How to Choose the Right Type of Mulch

Close up of a person wearing gardening gloves after they chose the right type of mulch

  Adding mulch to your soil is an essential part of gardening and landscaping that involves placing a layer of material over the soil surface around plants. Mulching has many benefits including conserving moisture in the soil, regulating soil temperature, and improving soil structure and fertility. Mulch also helps to protect your plant roots from Read more

Why You Should Top Off Your Mulch Before Winter

Top Off Mulch Before Winter

Winter is often the end of the gardening season as we know it. Unless you’re planting snowmen, snow is the usual indicator that it is time to pack up your gardening tools and start making plans for next spring’s gardening season. However, before you begin drafting strategies for next year’s outdoor oasis, there are some Read more

Why Fall is the Perfect Time for Hardscaping

Fall Hardscaping

Autumn is here, and while that may be a sign to pack up your landscaping tools and call it a year, this doesn’t strictly mean your outdoor plans have to be put on hold just yet. While the chill in the air may mean the possibility of planting lush grass, blossoming flowers or bountiful veggies is Read more

Amending Your Garden Soil for Next Year

Amending Soil for Next Year

That chill in the air is finally here.  While this seasonal change may have you scrambling to pack up your gardening tools and make sure that any root vegetables you have in the ground get harvested before the frost sets in, there are, in fact, numerous ways to make sure your soil is primed for Read more

The Best Soils for Different Gardens

Best Soils

When it comes to building your garden, variety is something that is never in short supply. However, just because you have near unlimited tools at your disposal does not mean they all work in the same way. Careful research is the best way to make sure that your garden is built on a foundation that will Read more

Benefits of Limestone and How it is Used in Landscape Design

Benefits of Limestone

  We offer a wide variety of limestone products for your outdoor projects. While in many cases, limestone can be viewed as simply an aesthetic choice for your garden, offering wonderful border materials and pathway gravel, there is far more to this sturdy material than meets the eye. Believe it or not, limestone has been Read more

Keep Your Garden Healthy With Mulch

Keep Your Garden Healthy

Every garden needs good security — not only that — but also guaranteed protection and the means to thrive. Mulch can help keep your garden healthy!   That’s why our mulch products are built with one thing in mind, and that’s making sure your garden is protected from the elements, while also keeping soil temperatures Read more

Types of Mulch and Their Benefits

Types of Mulch

Mulches are a crucial building block for any landscaping project and as with any mulch, their makeup is made up of a wide variety of materials that each have their own purpose-built applications. With our options, you have access to the types of mulch you require to get your outdoor projects up to speed in Read more

Our Favourite Landscaping Trends 2022

Favourite Landscaping Trends

As this year’s thaw hits our province, so do new techniques and applications in modern landscaping trends. Applications that have emerged over the last few years are coming into their own and are now dominating the playing field of modern landscaping procedures.  With these trends taking form, now has never been a better time to Read more

Manage Your Soil Conditions with Mulches

Manage your soil conditions with mulch

It is one of those interesting points that come about as you begin your gardening journey: that is, of course, how your soil is much more important to the health of your plants and garden than you might think. It’s in the same realm as plants growing out of the air because they capture and Read more

3 Main Types of Aggregates Used in Landscaping

Types of Aggregates Used in Landscaping

Our aggregates are available in a range of styles, sizes and types. We carry decorative and construction aggregates that can be used for many different purposes in gardening, landscaping or building. With all the possibilities and varieties, it can become almost overwhelming to choose the right option for your garden. This is why we’ve put Read more

Should You Mulch in Spring, Summer or Fall?

Best Time to Mulch

Mulch is a very helpful material. When properly applied, it can produce an attractive visual effect that improves the look and feel of your garden dramatically. Plus, the versatile nature of the material makes it ideal for garden beds, as a trim material, and in other aesthetically pleasing applications. Still, the benefits of mulch are Read more

Can You Store Mulch Over the Winter?

Store Mulch Over Winter

When it comes to mulch, it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. While you’ll want to re-mulch in autumn and offer your beds and trees a liberal layer of fresh mulch, you don’t really want more than 3 or 4 inches. As the layer of mulch gets too thick, it can make Read more

What Colour Mulch is Best for My Garden?

What Colour Mulch is Best

Using mulch in your garden is a great way to provide multiple benefits at once. You get a wind block, weed repellent, nutrient provider and beautiful aesthetic all in one! The many benefits of mulch make it a great choice for homeowners and commercial landscapers alike. But, despite all these benefits, one question always comes Read more

Mulching Tips and Tricks Every Gardener Should Know

Mulching Tips and Tricks

Mulching your garden is a great way to increase nutrient density and provide a beautiful aesthetic to your landscaping. With the proper combination of stonework, landscaping and mulch, your garden can become a veritable oasis. Still, using mulch is not necessarily a simple process, so it is best to come prepared for the activity with Read more

Choosing the Right Mulch for Your Garden

Mulch for your Garden

The right mulch for your garden should do more than “feel” right. It should provide you with clear and hidden benefits, look amazing and be an all-around excellent choice. These might seem like lofty goals, but as many experienced gardeners are already aware, it is not only possible but easily achievable. Still, it isn’t enough Read more

How to Mulch Your Garden

How to Mulch Your Garden

Keeping an immaculate garden can be a wonderful way to improve the look of your yard or business. Still, it is not always considered easy when all is said and done. There is a fair amount of upkeep that comes with gardening, from planting and monitoring your plants to creating garden beds, hefting soil and Read more

When to Use Topsoil vs Garden Mix

When to Use Topsoil vs Garden Mix - Soil Kings - Bulk Landscape Supplies Calgary

One question we hear a lot from both homeowners and landscapers who are just getting started in the business is: should I use screened topsoil or a garden mix? This is a really good question, and there isn’t an obvious answer — which is probably why so many people ask. To get started, it’s a Read more

Why Worm Castings Are Nature’s Perfect Plant Food

Why Worm Castings Are Nature's Perfect Plant Food - Soil Kings - Bulk Landscape Supplies Calgary

Many types of Earthworms (such as Red Wigglers) and plants evolved together in perfect symbiosis. Earthworms are adapted to eating decaying organic matter. As plants grow and stems, leaves, roots, and other plant tissues are shed, they mix into the soil, where the worms thrive on a steady diet of decomposing foliage. In turn, the Read more