Sunday, June 9, 2013

Experiments with mulch in the garden!

Every year when it gets to be around mid-July our garden looks VERY lush and green -- with an overabundance of big, tall, hard-to-pull leafy green weeds. :( Yuck.

Soooooooooooo this year we are trying a new approach!! :) We are going to try using mulch :) We are putting down newspapers covered with straw for the walkways and putting dried grass-clippings over the dirt between/around plants. We'll see how it works! :) Hopefully it'll do the trick and make our garden at least not 2/3 or more of the plant matter being weeds :)

Here's what it looks like right now. We'll see as the season progresses!



If you're a mulcher, I'd love to hear your suggestions/comments!!

:)

2 comments:

  1. I'm a big mulcher. After my seedlings are big enough to spot, or right after I have put plants in the ground, I mulch with whatever I can get. I save junk mail (throwing away any shiny pages) and use that, newspapers, paper bags, leaves that I collect each fall- pretty much anything! It saves my knees, and is terrific for the soil!

    Your garden looks amazing!

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  2. Sheila
    Be sure to watch the Back to Eden video online great to learn all about mulching in the garden.
    Blessings
    Kelly

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