Mulch is an excellent organic fertilizer for your vegetables. But did you know it has many many other benefits too? Watch this video to know what they are as well as the best mulch to use, how to apply mulch and 3 mulching tips at the end.
Here are the materials you can use to mulch:
Wooodchips
Leaves (better shredded)
Tea leaves
Straw
Grass clippings
Used coffee grounds
Comfrey
Nettles
Plant materials
Bark
Black plastic
Old carpets
Cardboard (sheet mulching)
How to prepare a raised bed video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97icQHwRyi8
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excellent episode Huw and thank you for having me on your program! Mulch has allowed me to move completely away from store bough fertilizers.
At 3:00 i did not understand what you said, why should we cover raised beds in winter?
Thanks in advance, keep up the good work 🙂
Thanks for the vid! Don't forget the standard juglone disclaimer. There are several plant types including nightshades that can be injured by the juglone contained in fresh Black Walnut and Butternut leaves. So make sure those leaves are partially composted beforehand.
Mulching is very important!
If your neighbors use chemical fertilizer on their grass, is it still organic mulch?
Thank you for your video. I did not even think to mulch the onions with leaves. I usually use them for bedding in the chicken coup.
thanks, nice video.
do all the benefits of mulching hold good for container gardens as well? And in a tropical country?
learned a lot thanks!
Could you use a mix of apple wood chips and grass cuttings? It would be very high in nitrogen?
my only problem is fire ants! I've tried many many organic methods of dealing with them to no avail. When I go to work in my garden I have to gear up almost like a bee keeper.
That was helpful. I had only thought to mulch over winter and I had not thought to use grass cuttings. I need to improve my soil so I shall get onto this but I think wood chippings should come later for me as they would take much longer to decompose.
great video.
Huw, having a farm you presumably also have access to manure of some kind? Is your vegetable garden just mulched and fertilised with non-animal sources or do you also use manure? Just interested to know whether non-manure based vegetable growing can succeed…..
enjoyed this episode. I shall certainly be putting the leaves and grass cuttings to use this year. thanks again.
AND, to increase microbes.
Beautiful tomatoes.
Great video and thank you for sharing
I'm just starting new garden beds so last summer we killed a large area of grass. Then in the fall we bought some red wiglers, mixed grass and leaves and covered the whole area. Now I am adding coffee grounds and food scraps twice a week and turning the whole bed once or twice a week. I'm hoping that much of the mulch will be broken down by spring.
Great vid. Make sure you read Rust Stout books!
Excelente aporte
Gracias por colaborar con la naturaleza.
Y buena práctica
I came hear to NOT here an American accent and what happens?????
Thank you for this. Very helpful.
Awesome! I've used coffee grounds for my compost butt never knew i could use them as mulch! Great tip! Thanks!
Just saw your video and was delighted to hear that leaves are one of the best mulches as my husband and I (we live in France but my husband is Welsh!) have been out in the local lanes every day for three or four weeks collecting big bags of leaves for the veg plot. Most of them are chestnut leaves, which are available in abundance in the area. Unfortunately, they come with lots of prickly casings, so we've been targeting young trees which haven't produced chestnuts yet. We've also got lots of oak leaves and even smaller ones to ago around small plants which are going to be in the ground over the winter (strawberries, onions, garlic etc). Would love to send a pic of the brown veg plot, but don't know how to do it. Anyway, thanks for all your videos.
I find that mulching in winter (warm climate so winter for me is like spring for you) brings a very large amount of slugs and snails. once mulch is cleared they were reduced. any thoughts?
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What is the benefit to build up a raise bed instead of plant directly to the soil?
Raise bed needs money to purchase wood and then fill it out with soil and that’s cost a lot of time/money
Look forward to hearing from you
Thx
Do you use your grass clippings on your pathways? Wouldn’t they attract slugs?
Thank you for your youtube. Helps me a lot. Question. Cutting lawn, my neighbor use chemical, is not ok to use for mulch? Thanks!
Thankyou. I am glad you mentioned that it is good to flip the mulch this compacted soil was happening to me .now I know why.