See How The Mulch Features Can Help You
The Mulch is an independent gardening website with special features and information for gardeners of all levels, from beginner home gardeners to seasoned experts and gardening businesses. We invite you to join (it's free) and start using our features designed with gardening enthusiasts in mind!
Home Gardeners
Plant. Grow. Share.
Our goal is and has always been to provide a place where gardeners can get relevant information About your plants sent to you, instead of searching for it every time.

At the Mulch, we search the Internet, research plants, find plant care, interview experts, provide plant recommendations, publishing blogs, regional articles, and plant photos, 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.
Membership is fun, free and easy!
Take advantage of our great interactive features today.
As A Member of theMulch You Can:
- Personalize a plant care calendar from other gardeners' expertise - new feature!
- Create a Member profile and plant list
- Keep track of plants in your garden
Special deals and discounts - Connect to other gardeners thru plants you love.
- See who's growing what and how they do it
- Keep notes about plants of interested to you
- Ask questions and get answers in our forum
- Get expert plant recommendations.
- Send instant messages to gardening friends
- Post your favorite web links in our Directory
- Post events in our gardening calendar
- Share photos
- And much more!!!
Gardening Businesses/Clubs
Grow your business or club 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 entice 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... JOIN NOW!
Free publicity on the Mulch (with membership):
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!
Getting Started
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
- Join - It's Free (if you haven't already).
- 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.
- 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!
Start with Three Plants
New Feature: Free Monthly Plant Care Reminders!
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 - we'll do the rest! It sounds too 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 (If this works out we'll be expanding). Steve has an incredible amount of experience and now he'll be creating gardening to-do reminders each month for theMulch members.
Simply click a button and have monthly plant care reminders sent directly from the Mulch to you. It's really easy, just sign up for our free membership, then click here to tell us at least three plants you'd like FREE monthly plant care reminders for - that's it! We'll send you a notice as we create new 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 the 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!
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