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- How to mulch your beds - tips and tricks
- Why should I mulch my beds?
- The benefits of mulching:
- How can I mulch my beds?
- Can I also mulch vegetable patches?
- Tips
Mulch protects against weeds and dryness
How to mulch your beds - tips and tricks
Mulching can affect the soil in your garden in different ways, depending on the choice of material. Therefore, it is important that you think about what you want to do by mulching your beds.
Why should I mulch my beds?
Naked ground is not necessarily the most aesthetic sight, it also erodes the earth and / or blown away by the wind. This does not happen with covered beds. At the same time, the soil is improved by mulching and protected from the weather. The harvest can be increased by mulching and the growth of their plants is stimulated.
The benefits of mulching:
How can I mulch my beds?
Quite common is mulching with grass clippings, pine bark or conventional bark mulch. Grass clippings should dry slightly before use and be applied only in one cut, otherwise there is a risk of mold. It is rich in nitrogen and potassium.
Bark mulch is often used for the design of easy-care beds. If it is high quality, then it smells pleasantly resinous. Acidic or sulphurous odor indicates decay. You should not use this mulch anymore, it could harm your plants. Red-brown pine bark mulch is ideal for creating garden paths.
Can I also mulch vegetable patches?
Even vegetable beds can be mulched, but here the choice of the right material is particularly important. So strawberry fields are usually mulched after flowering with fresh dry straw. It keeps snails away from the plants and largely prevents the strawberries from becoming moldy.
In the trade you will find special mulch paper. Made from cornstarch, it reduces the growth of weeds on your vegetable patch and raises the temperature in the soil. This increases the yield, especially in heat-loving plants. After the vegetable harvest you can simply compost the foil.
Tips
The finer the mulching material, the thinner you should apply it, so that the ground can still breathe well.