Gardening Without Mulch

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Gardening without mulch. Mulch is a broad term for a soil covering and includes anything from straw to sheets of plastic landscape fabric to egad recycled automobile tires. The only thing different is 1 mulch and 2 high intensity gardening. While these are all well and good not everyone is a fan for practical reasons. Great soil great gardens.

It looks good on ornamental beds and borders and can suppress weed growth retain moisture insulate crops during the winter reduce soil erosion and can transform into plant nutrients once it decomposes. Mulch and mulch again. From the american space program at nasa to the basement tomato aficionado soil less gardening has become extremely popular worldwide. The exception is plastic mulch applied in early spring on a vegetable garden prior to planting.

No soil gardening or soil less gardening is used throughout the world to grow many things. Yet that is only one of several ways that gardens can be grown without the use of soil. Gardener and author ruth stout first laid out the concept of deep mulch gardening in her 1950s book gardening without the work. Mulch is textbook material for organic landscape planting.

When done properly. For the aging the busy and the indolent in short ruth s method used layers of mulch to choke out weeds retain soil moisture and add organic matter and nutrients to the garden bed. Once we soil is loosened and the no dig garden layers are added they will start to break down adding organic matter to the soil and the earthworms will do all the digging from there on taking the nice organic matter from the surface and carrying it further into the soil slowly converting the soil underneath into a rich dark humus. You can leave it in place.

One for each of the following situations. It will raise the soil temperature to give seeds a healthy early start. Here are 3 no till gardening methods to have great soil. This is the same garden left.

If you need to build good soil you have good soil or even if you got no soil to garden at all. I like pea gravel for plants that need great. When most people hear no soil gardening they immediately think of hydroponics. A thick layer of mulch around your plants and over the entire bed will enhance the growing conditions for garden plants while reducing time spent weeding and watering.

Mulch is the ultimate gardening time saver no matter if you re tending to flower beds or vegetable gardens and while mulching itself may be a pain it reaps many rewards. What makes soil so great.