Comments on: Mulching

By: Flett Hofstad

Flett Hofstad — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:53:44 +0000

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By: Irene @ SmilingGardener

Irene @ SmilingGardener — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:42:34 +0000

I love this site! I am about to start my garden next week and I was thinking of mulching it first, thanks to this blog I now know what steps should I take in mulching my garden.

By: H. Eberts

H. Eberts — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:22:14 +0000

I am new at gardening and am wondering if I should remove all of the natural non- coloured cedar mulch I put on my perennial beds last summer for weed control (about 2 inches) OR if I should dig it into the soil before adding new mulch. Some of the mulch I put on last year has turned a bit yellowish…….I don’t know if the cedar was new cut or a mix of new and aged. I’ve read that new mulch will take too many nutrients from the soil if dug in. However, what counts as aged? Last year’s mulch has had 10 months of weather (I live near Ottawa). Should I be adding bone meal or something else to the soil?
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Hi
First of all any kind of cedar mulch will not harm your perennial beds. If you wish to make your plants grow more, push the cedar mulch aside and add some compost or manure. Bone meal is especially good when transplanting; it makes the roots take hold. Everything depends on what you wish to do with your plants. If you wish to divide them up because they are taking up too much space and you are transplanting, use bonemeal in the hole you are digging. If you want to give your plants a boost and at the same time replenish your soil, use compost or manure which you can buy at any hardware store or nursery. I buy my compost/manure at Home Depot. One extra point, you should replenish your soil every year with natural material as opposed to using synthetic plant food which does nothing for the soil. After a few years, your plants do not have much smell anymore.

After you have added your compost or manure, cover your soil with the cedar mulch. If you don’t like the color of the stuff which you have, simply add more on top of it. If you are feeding your plants with a lot of liquid plant food, the worms do not like the salt from it. You want the worms in your soil, for they will turn your mulch into compost plus the vermicompost produced in your soil will also add nutrients to your soil. So use just natural material for feeding your
plants.

Hope this helps. If you have any more questions, you can email me at marsnyder@gmail.com.

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By: Viliam

Viliam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:02:30 +0000

One of our readers recommended this blog post:…

The idea is to use woody, “brown” organic materials, put the material through a chipper, a shredder or break into small pieces, and spread the resulting mulch in layers on the garden or flower bed or around shrubs and trees. ……