Mulching Makes All The Difference! In our backyard gardens, just like in nature, bare and exposed soils are just no good. Walk through a forest or any natural greenscape and you’ll won’t see the naked dirt. Nature has designed seasonal systems and processes to eliminate exposed soils for protection and to keep the plant-soil interaction healthy and robust.
Same with our gardens. You soil is your most precious resource for growing the best veggies and fruits. You and the soil have to work three times harder when an exposed top layer keeps drying out, is prone to weed colonization, and the microbial activity is lost to the depths.
Let’s change that today talk about everything MULCH! I’ll give you my 6 key benefits of mulching your vegetable garden right now, as well when to mulch, how to mulch, and what to mulch with! Enjoy. 🙂
2022 is the Year of the Garden! We deserve it after the last little while, and growing our own food and self sufficiency is just the reward we need to get back on track!
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Great video, i just have one question about using green grass clippings. If my lawn has a lot of weeds and hardly any grass, can i still use those clippings as mulch for a vegetable garden?
An interesting and informative video. However, there is a good practice that wasn't mentioned.
Due to its insulating properties, mulch will dramatically slow down the warming process in the early growing season. I realized this many years ago when I mulched my strawberry beds in the fall. Early the following spring, I noticed that my other unmulched beds were almost ready for sowing early crops. When I looked under the mulch covering the strawberries, the soil was still frozen solid. From that time on, I remove mulch once the risk of the extreme freeze/thaw cycle is over.
Cheers
Smart guy with great information! Thank you!
Do you use straw mulching for all of your fruits and veggies? I use dark bark without the dye colored. I think using straw makes the plants look so beautiful and especially the bright green plants! Just beautiful.
I would love 4 you to come check out my garden n strawberries and make sure I'm doing my garden correctly! You are a pro master!
How much grass clipping is safe? At some point the stuff gets hot, so I am thinking more than 1 inch will not work well… will it?
I also use leaves as mulch too
Great Presentation, Thank You!!!!
You can just compost over your winter mulch then plant your plants and mulch again. Repeating this process year after year builds a thicker layer of organic matter and nutrient rich soil.
HI , WATCH YOUR CHANNEL ALOT THANKS MAN . IF YOUR WATERING WITH A DRIP, DO YOU WATER ON TOP OR UNDER THE MULCH AND SHOULD YOU KEEP THE MULCH WET ALONG WITH THE SOIL?
What is the name of plain mulch used in video please?
Where would you recommend purchasing mulch from? Is there a good online source?
Well, you answered one thing about seeding/shallow mulch. 🙂 Opinions on Pine Needles? I've got that to my knees here plus I have to occasionally drop one of the smaller Pines I let grow about 20' so I have a good pole/post to work with once trimmed-plenty of green needles from that. Anything Not to use? I mean-poison Ivy or Cactus or maybe Toxic Waste?
My “lawn” is made up of wild violets, white clover and grass. I use the clippings in my garden beds making a light application each time I mow. It has time to dry out before the next layer and works great.
I'm confused: chop & drop, I thought you were supposed to clean up tomato beds after harvesting all tomatoes due to diseases resulting if you do not. Also, with leaves as mulch I heard once if you mix the leaves into the soil they reduce the available nitrogen. Are these 2 statements correct?
Where to buy bulk rye grass seed?
Enjoyed this as I started using straw to cover for the first time this year. One question, when I begin to putting my compost into the raised beds, due I pushback the straw to put the compost directly on the soil and then reapply the straw?
Think I know the answer but rather ask than cause a problem down the road
Really, i love you for sharing this! I started growing my own tomatoes for the first time. I'm gonna mulch my tomatoes right now. Yaaay 🙂
Call me an idiot, but i'm really excited to see how it will turn out.
So far your instructions have worked like a charm. Thks & greetz from Holland
Hello I added what I thought was straw but it seems to be sprouting so I think it's hay. Where can I get organic fine shredded straw like yours for my veggies garden? I was told the bale I bought had herbicide as well. So now I'm going to remove and want to add the organic straw instead. Just not sure where I can buy it? Thanks for your great videos!!
Can I reuse the straw mulch from last year?
Buy a wood chipper and a chainsaw. Prune your trees. Feed the cut branches and leaves into the chipper. Combine woodcips with cut grass. You will have the best mulch.
I put leaves in my chickens area and they love to mulch it. Can I use the leaves and chicken poop as mulch?
Fantastic and useful content , just the type of advice I need as a newby to vegetable gardening, thank you so much for sharing , I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to my next master class. Thank you
I agree mulch has great benefits but it has one big drawback, I had to stop using mulch because the ideal conditions mulch created for my garden was also ideal conditions for slugs which got out of control, once I stopped mulching it greatly reduced the slug and snail population.
What if your grass has weeds in it? Is it a good idea to use it, or compost it for a year?
Thank you