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Gardening Ideas on Mulching

Mulching is the process of improving the soil around plants by using mulches, which are straw, wood chips, leaves and grass clippings, as well as giving your garden a neat, tidy appearance, and, at the same time, reduce the amount of time spent on watering and weeding.  Mulches are either applied to the bare soil or to cover the surface of compost in plant containers.

 

Since plants need constant watering for proper growth, retaining the water can be attained by using the process of mulching, which uses mulches to absorb the water.  The function of mulches is to absorb water coming from rainfall and irrigation, as well as they slow down the evaporation of moisture from the soil.  The advantage of improved water retention is that the need for frequent irrigation is reduced resulting into a longer spacing for watering the plants, which reduced water consumption.  Slow erosion can also happen in mulching since it prevents the water from washing the soil out of the garden. Get in touch with Mulching Boerne companies to know more. 

 

Because mulch acts as an insulating layer to the soil, the effect is the temperature of the ground is almost maintained, and with that condition, applying mulch during spring and early summer can help control the soil temperature.  The fall and winter cold temperature allows the layer of mulch to retain the heat in the soil, such that the warm soil provides longer growth for the plants, as well as protecting the roots from the harsh winter temperatures.

 

The effect of mulching also has the advantage of suppressing the growth of unwanted weed in the plant beds and in the garden, because the layer of mulch prevents sunlight from reaching into the germinating weeds from the soil to grow.  On the other hand, when weed seeds land on top of the mulch, they aren't able to root themselves deeply into the soil, making it impossible for them to continue growing.

 

Using organic mulch materials, like wood chips or leaves, can help enrich the soil, since mulch break down over time and the decomposed mulch adds the nutrients to the soil in order to feed the plants and organisms that are existing in the plant area which are covered with mulch.  With the decomposition of the mulch, it has further improved the soil structure in such a way that it added space between the particles of the soil, resulting into allowing water, oxygen, and nutrients to reach the plant roots, since the soil is not hard nor compact.

 

Garden beds and borders can be mulched entirely but with careful consideration of not smothering low growing plants or piling mulches up against the stems of woody plants.  To effectively apply mulches, the following must be observed: first remove the weeds including the roots, moisten the soil, and apply the layer of mulch with a thickness between 5 cm and 7.5 cm. Look up Tree Removal Boerne online to know more about your options in the area. 

 

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