Volcano mulch looks like a muffin. The mulch around your tree should look like a donut— a circle around the tree with a hole in the middle where no mulch touches the tree. The tree shouldn’t look like a telephone pole sticking out of the mulch; you should see it flare out at the bottom. Illustration by Connie Oswald Stofko by Connie Oswald Stofko It seems to be the start of volcano season in Western New York. Mulch volcanoes (those…


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