For the Home Gardener

Our goal has always been to make a place where you can get gardening information that is relevant ABOUT YOUR GARDEN sent to YOU, instead of you having to go search for it every time.

We're searching the Internet, researching plants, finding plant care information, interviewing experts, finding plant recommendations, publishing blogs and regional articles, finding plant photos, (and much more) and bringing it back to the Mulch for you to use at your leisure. Gardeners of all abilities and gardening businesses of all shapes and sizes can benefit from joining the Mulch.

Members can do the following all for FREE:

• Create a personalized plant care calendar using other gardeners' expertise - new feature!
  
• Create a personal member profile and plant list.
• Keep track of the plants in your garden.
• Find all sorts of special deals and discounts.
• Connect to other gardeners by the plants you have.
• Find out who is growing what and how they are doing it.
• Keep notes about the plants you are interested in.
• Ask questions and get answers in our forum.
• Get expert plant recommendations.
• Send instant messages to your gardening friends.
• Post your favorite web links in our Directory.
• Post events in our gardening calendar.
• Share your photos.
• And much more!!!

Membership is fun, free and easy! Start taking advantage of all our great interactive features.

Gardening Businesses/Clubs

Grow your business or club today at the Mulch! Gardening businesses and clubs of all shapes and sizes can use the Mulch to gain exposure and increase sales. There are multiple opportunities (both free and paid) to get AVID GARDENERS to visit your website, read your blog, call your nursery, order your book, sign up for your services, attend your meetings or whatever else you do that is gardening related. The first step is to JOIN NOW!

Free publicity on the Mulch (you'll need to be a member first):

Paid Advertising Opportunities

The Mulch offers cost effective ways to reach new customers. Our members and visitors are just what you want, avid gardeners. We use multiple strategies to create traffic on our website, which translates into new customers for you. In order to save you money and get better visibility we're now handling all advertising in-house. Learn more here, or contact us with any questions.

We'll Republish Your eNewsletter

Our eNewsletter section is extremely popular. We take your complete eNewsletter or press release and publish it in our Special Offers section with links to it from the Mulch, Google Adwords and Twitter. Learn More Here!

Inexpensive Banner Ads and Links

Get a ton of exposure and only pay for clicks! We have opportunities for banner ads, text ads, Facebook style ads and much more. You'll get fantastic visibility and since we handle our advertising in-house our prices are fantastic! Learn More Here!

Plant Care Gardening Content - Most Unique and Targeted Advertising Available Anywhere!

Use your plant care expertise to get in front of avid gardeners on a regular basis. Get new customers, gain credibility, and much more. Contact Us To Get Started.

Featured Directory Listings

Get your name at the top of searches in our Links Directory. We'll even put links throughout our site to make sure people see you! It's a great way to have gardeners visit your website.

Featured Calendar Listings

Get a full page of content along with listing in our Gardening Events Calendar accompanied by links to promote the listing. Learn More Here!

Sponsor a Contest

Get ongoing publicity and brand awareness along with happy winners! Learn More Here!

Widgets

This is a very comprehensive way to get multiple and interactive messages delivered to our Avid Gardeners. It's easy to do and it gets fantastic placement and even better results. Contact Us To Get Started. Learn More Here!

Every gardening related business should be a member of the Mulch! Join now! It's free, you can get great exposure and it's fun - Don't Delay Join Today!

Tell Us Three Plants

New Feature: Monthly Plant Care Reminders For You for Free!

It's Simple as 1-2-3: Be a Member of the Mulch - join (it's Free). Tell us three plants you'd like monthly care reminders for - Tell Us Here! That's it - we'll do the rest! It sounds to good to be true, but it's not.

We've lured Steve Brigham out of retirement to personally create monthly plant care reminders for you and your garden. One catch, we're starting in California (sorry, but if this works out we'll be expanding ASAP). Steve has an incredible amount of experience (more about Steve here) and now he's ready to create reminders of what you should be doing in your garden each month.

Our system makes it possible to simply click a button and have monthly plant care reminders sent directly from the Mulch to you. It's really easy, simply be a member of the Mulch, then click here to tell us three plants you'd like monthly plant care reminders for (it's free), and - that's it! We'll send you a note as we create the monthly plant care reminders then all you need to do is click one button and they'll be sent to you each month.

When to buy a plant, fertilize, prune, harvest, transplant and all sorts of other important tasks can be automatically sent to your computer year round. It's easy to do, just tell us what plants you're growing and select the care instructions and this care information will be automatically sent to you for easy on demand access! We'll even help you every step of the way. Imagine how great it would be to have ONE place that reminds you what you should be doing to be successful in your garden!

Getting Started

All of our features are free to view. However all of the unique interactive features are reserved for members, including being able to create a list of the plants you own (here's an example), asking questions, posting comments and most importantly using our personalized monthly Plant Care System. There are many other features explained in greater detail in our Getting Started User Guide and in our frequently asked questions (FAQ's) section.

Everything revolves around your member profile page which is referred to in as "My Profile" and the tabs on that page. You can manage all your personal features from "My Profile", so if you ever feel like you're lost, click on a "My Profile" link and you'll be back to your page.

How to Get Started

1. Join - It's Free (if you haven't already).
2. Go to your profile page and click on the different tabs (click My Profile in the top left menu to find your profile). Tell a little about yourself by answering our Gardening Profile Questions.
3. Create your personal plant list and add five plants (at least) to your My Plants list. It's easy to do, just find the plant in our Plant Encyclopedia and click the "ADD" button. You can search by common name or botanical name. Adding the plants you own opens up a whole set of features unique to the Mulch.

Once you've joined and added a few plants you're well on your way. You're now automatically connected to anyone else in the community that has the same plant, you can keep private gardening notes about your garden, you can create lists of all your plants, create wish lists, have fun and tell people what's in your Plant Cemetary, your forum discussions, your photos, private messages and much more!

Have fun and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!