Get dirty with mulch – Mulching for vegetables, herbs, all plants and gardens. Soil and nutrients attracting earth worms.
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What ill will be discussing over the next few months is everything you need to know to start your garden and get it to a point where it can be useful to you and your family. We will cover topics such as gardening, vegetables, food, health, natural systems and more. Sustainable Living and solutions for saving you money, saving you time and making your life much better in the process. The secrets are in the soil !
This video is all about mulching. Mulching is the process of laying decomposing plant material over your plant beds to retain water and nutrients as well as providing a layer of new compost for the following year. It also insulates the soil keeping roots warm and growing strongly. Mulching creates conditions in the soil that attract earth worms and this is really good for any planting whether it is vegetables, herbs, garden plants or fruit trees. Mulching is natures process of recycling plant matter.
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We all need to do a little gardening now and then and it can be a whole lot of fun if we just get our hands down into the soil and smell that compost a little. Living life in a sustainable way is really a good idea in the next few years because the way we are currently supplied with food, energy etc. will be changing as economies shift and change in the near future. We need to find new solutions for making our lives stable and healthy and this series of film clips is what that is all about. I will be posting regular video blogs on here all about planting, gardening, vegetables, herbs and more. As I learn and visit different people I will be sharing these insights with you. Also I am creating an online workshop all about permaculture and sustainable living. Come discover with me how to plant crops in the spring, autumn and winter and all about feeding the soil with nutrients. A community project about natural systems, ecology and the environment. Here on youtube and on other sites ill be exploring all kinds of interesting ways of living with nature and technology to create more efficient systems and a sustainable future. Attracting the earth worms is the first step to healthy plants !!
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Pine Bark Mulch
Mulching is an essential part of good garden practices. And if you’ve ever done any Landscaping around your home, you know that a generous layer of mulch around your plants can give your garden a nice finished look. But it’s about a lot more than just looks.
Mulch is very functional. It can keep moisture in and weeds out. And with the fall and winter ahead, it can offer your plants some measure of protection. I’ve actually brought things through that weren’t regarded as cold hardy by putting an extra layer of mulch on them.
Now there is a whole range of mulches to choose from – various kinds of straws, wood chips, even newspapers. But what I like to use in my flowerbeds is a ground up pine bark. I like it because it looks natural in my garden. And while eventually it will decompose and work itself into the soil, because it’s a bark, it’s very durable. Let me explain what I mean by this.
You see, the outer covering or bark of a tree acts as a protective layer. It’s actually waterproof and it’s made waterproof by waxes and suberant, which don’t exist in the core of the tree. So it just makes sense that bark products will be longer lasting in your flowerbed.
The longevity of bark as a mulch has actually been studied and found that it only decomposed by about thirty percent having been on the ground for up to two years. Of course the larger the chip, the longer it lasts. If you’re looking for something very long lasting, you might give bark a try.
From the garden, I’m Allen Smith.
Copyright: 1997
P. Allen Smith Gardens
Hortus LTD.
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