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Post by daylilydude on Oct 21, 2017 4:36:15 GMT -5
If you mulch, which is your favorite, and why do you think it's better than the other types?
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Post by paulf on Oct 21, 2017 9:24:10 GMT -5
In the vegetable garden I have settled on newspaper, 2 or three layers topped by 6-inches of straw, weedless if I can get it which for several years I have had good luck.
Since I still work one day per week at our local newspaper, I get the end rolls of paper, 32 inches wide and each end roll is maybe 50 feet long. Just roll it out and it covers quite well. A friend grows wheat so the wheat straw is easy to come by. For me the ease of application and ease of finding the materials and that it works for weed suppression and that water flows through to the soil and keeps the temperature of the soil down are all plusses. Besides, at the end of the growing season it all tills under to add organics to the soil.
Around my wife's flowers we still like wood chips. They look nice, they break down eventually into compost-like material and it works for weed suppression, too.
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Post by meandtk on Oct 21, 2017 9:37:56 GMT -5
Wood chips They are presently the best, because we got several truckloads for free ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/1O7SOWgs0dheN6ogmHMC.png)
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Post by paquebot on Oct 21, 2017 23:16:00 GMT -5
Paper is good, wood chips are good, don't add any nutrients to the soil, and require nitrogen to convert them to carbon. I use leaves and pine needles. Needles are from white pine and preferred leaves are from white oak. And not whole but shredded with a mulching mower. The end result is something that will last most of the growing season and have almost as many nutrients as horse manure.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 26, 2017 9:12:16 GMT -5
I use straw.
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