Mulch- Not Just for Decorative Plants Mulch is an often-overlooked but extremely beneficial tool for gardens to thrive. It’s mostly found in surrounding landscaping, but not many know how to properly use it within a garden. Mulch helps your plants grow by improving the soil quality and preventing weed growth. Once you know how to […]
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Choosing the Best Mulch for Landscaping Adding the right type of mulch to your garden comes with many benefits. In summer, mulching helps your soil hold moisture and deters weed growth. Certain kinds of weeds require sunlight to grow, but mulching your soil can prevent heat from germinating pesky weeds. All that said, choosing the
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Best Practices for Mulching Mulching has several benefits for your garden. It can help in preventing weed growth and soil erosion, it can even help moderate soil temperature. Indeed, mulching is a great way to keep your garden in great condition. Get great results from mulching with these best practices. Doing the process properly will
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When you look at your garden or landscape, do you feel like something is missing? It might just be that you don’t have mulch to give your home’s landscape a finished appearance. The look of mulch can definitely change the way you look at your garden and even increase the value of your home or
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Now that Halloween is over and your jack-o-lanterns are starting to turn to mush, you need to know how to purge them properly! But how do you dispose of your pumpkins? Throw them in the trash? Think again! Studies show that 1.91 billion pounds of pumpkins grown annually in the US end up in landfills
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If you haven’t placed mulch yet or have never used it, it’s not too late and you should really consider it. There are plenty of reasons to add mulch to your garden or around your trees including moisture conservation and weed suppression as well as improving bio diversity when the mulch rots and the nutrients
Worms help make healthy soil, so what happens to them in the winter? Their survival tactics are actually astounding! Before the soil freezes, earthworms burrow down into the subsoil, below the frost line, sometimes as much as 6ft deep. They form a slime-coated ball and hibernate in a state called estivation. Because they are wrapped
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