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Mulching

Learn how to use mulches effectively in your vegetable garden or permaculture project to promote healthier plants and soil. Mulching provides a variety of valuable benefits and is an essential aspect of no-dig/no-till organic gardening. Mulch helps to retain moisture, prevent weed growth, preserve soil quality, and eventually decompose to nourish the soil. Check out my article on the benefits of mulching.

A big green bag full of dead, fallen leaves to be shredded for mulch.
Compost | Mulching

7 Methods To Shred Leaves For Mulch, Compost or Leaf Mold

Tomatoes growing in the garden.
Grow Vegetables | Mulching

Secrets of Mulching For Your Best Tomato & Pepper Harvests

An extremely large tillage radish that was pulled out of the soil to demonstrate how large they can get. Radish is white but dirty and the green top leaves are very large too.
Gardening | Mulching

Tillage Radish: The Best Cover Crop For Soil Health

A transplanted tomato growing out of a mulched garden bed.
Mulching

Why Is My Mulch Turning White? {It’s Usually GOOD}

Vegetables grown and harvested from a back to Eden garden.
Gardening | Mulching

Back To Eden Gardening Method {Everything You Need To Know}

Mulch Calculator {Automatically Calculate Mulch Volumes}
Mulching

Mulch Calculator {Automatically Calculate Mulch Volumes}

Tomatoes in a raised garden bed mulched with hay.
Mulching

Using Hay As Mulch {Ruth Stout Method}

A vegetable bed mulched with straw.
Mulching

Using Straw as Mulch for a Productive Vegetable Garden

A silver wheelbarrow full of chop and drop weeds and plants for use as a mulch.
Mulching

Chop-And-Drop Mulch For The Healthiest Plants & Soil

An eggplant seedling with three green and purple leaves growing in a raised bed heavily mulched with straw.
Mulching

Benefits Of Mulch In Your Garden {Ultimate Guide To Mulching}

A pile of leaf mulch and wood mulch used together in a garden.
Mulching

Leaf Mulch vs Wood Mulch: Which is Best for Your Garden?

Three ripe, red tomatoes sitting on a pile of wood chips.
Mulching

13 Benefits Of Wood Mulch In Your Garden {Wood Chips Vs Mulch}

An asparagus bed with fresh, green spears growing in compost mulch.
Mulching

The BEST Mulch For Asparagus {Protect Your Asparagus Patch}

A handful of fresh grass clippings being used for mulching.
Mulching

Can You Use Grass Clippings As Mulch? Yes! I’ll Explain How.

Strawberry plants mulched with grass clippings and straw.
Grow Fruit | Mulching

The BEST Mulch For Strawberries {Ranked From Best To Worst}

An apple tree with branches sagging from the weight of so many ripe apples, the tree is not mulched, it is growing from green grass covered in fallen apples.
Grow Fruit | Mulching

The BEST Mulch For Fruit Trees {And What NOT To Do}

A mulched and edged flower bed of various annuals and perennials growing in the summer.
Mulching

How To Lay Mulch Over Grass {Step-by-Step Guide}

Rotted wood chips as mulch in an organic vegetable garden with fallen, red leaves on top.
Mulching

15 Best Mulch Options For An Organic Vegetable Garden

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