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Allergy Tips

To reduce mold, mulch with wood chips or gravel?

If you want to lay down mulch in your garden, be careful! Molds often grow in the wood chips, bark, shredded leaves and similar materials used to mulch a garden. It makes good sense to switch to pebbles instead of mulch. This same logic applies to compost heaps; because they are mold magnets, you may want to do without one. Mold, mildew, dust and pollen can also collect in the branches of hedges, so keep those hedges pruned!

Learn more: Sneeze-Free Gardening.

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