Do You Mulch Much?
Mulching is one of the most important things you can do for your garden. It not only helps to control weeds but it also keep your plants roots warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It also helps to add nutrients to the soil and keep your soil moist. As if all this wasn’t enough, mulching can also encourage beneficial insects to make a new home in your garden.
Mulch is pretty much anything that can be spread across the top of the soil. Honestly anything from compost to plastic is considered mulch. Obviously, not all of it is organic.
For great organic mulch try organic wood or straw, compost, and even grass clippings can be used. Just make sure that they were not treated with a commercial pesticide or herbicide. Cover your soil with about an inch of a mulch of you choice. Try to mulch your garden at least twice a year.
Pretty easy if you ask me.
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Organic Gardening.
Comments: 3
Comments
Comment from Nancy Bond
Time: June 8, 2008, 7:05 pm
Mulch makes the garden look so neat and tidy, as well, and seems to intensify the color of most plants.
Comment from BillinDetroit
Time: June 9, 2008, 9:07 pm
I’d recommend mulching 2″-4″ … anything less is just eye-candy but at this depth, you are providing weed prevention and keeping the soil moist and cool. Additionally, you are providing shelter from predators for your earthworms as well as the ‘gummy layer’ of partially decomposed organic material that they feed on.
Comment from mandy
Time: June 9, 2008, 9:39 pm
Hi Nancy and Bill,
I agree Nancy. Mulching makes everything look much cleaner. I love the way my garden looks right after I mulch.
Great tips Bill! Those earthworms are extremely valuable to any garden. The more we can do to accommodate them the better!
Thanks for participating and I hope to see you both back here often.
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