I have already written about using mulch in your garden. We covered the importance of keeping the weeds down with mulch, we talked about the benefits of controlling the moisture in your soil by adding mulch, and we generally discussed the 8 things you should do to get the best results from your mulch. Today I will only touch on a few of the more common uses of mulch. You can use anything at all in your garden as mulch, as long as it gets wet or falls around the plants.
1. Newspaper: use a mass of landscape paper for mulch. This is very easy to find at home supply stores. The advantages of landscape paper are that it Firstthere is no soil covering the paper so the paper doesn’t steal the moisture from the soil, and the soil around the paper doesn’t get wet. The disadvantages of using landscape paper are the trees your use to paper it don’t break down as fast and the paper can get damaged by ice storms and snow.
2. Clean snow: You can use clean snow to mulch your garden. You first need to melt the snow in your driveway. Then run your heavy equipment across the street and load it into your snow machine. Simply tear the snow into pieces, one part whenever you are able, and fill your home with Christmas trees. The consume lots of energy and melts slowly, so you don’t have to worry about the snow melting quickly.
3. Ores: When sulfur coated oregano breaks down in your soil it becomes a dark brown humus and is excellent for mulching. When oregano has been used for mulch for a few years it starts to smell pretty bad and the smell sticks around for a month or so. save yourself the hassle of smelling rotten oregano by using therick mixfor mulch.
4. Pine needles: there are a couple of alternatives for pine needles when using them as mulch. You can use theKnott’s Compost Pineappleowderand do the chop and add the peat and compost to the pine needles then use them as your mulch.. You can also use the Chinese dark pine needles. They won’t last as long as theKnott’s Compost Pineappleowderand you can chop them up and save them as mulch.
5. Dogwood: I have one particular tree that I use to make mulch. I have a cheap vibrator. It’s nothing fancy. It’s just a vibrating head that I stimulate with the sound of the leafs. I put the dogwood stems in the vibrator and it starts producing the leaves. The leaves fall off when the wood starts to move. I use this wood for my mulch and it lasts about 6 months.
6. Fancy Roses: Roses are beautiful and having some in your garden gives the garden a certain attractiveness. However, the rose is not very durable; various types of pests find them very distasteful. In your garden, you can choose one type of rose to survive the pests, and then you can choose another type that is not so attractive so the pests don’t find it, or choose no rose at all.
7. Jasmine: These are great for growing and are highly fragrant. The flowers are great for bouquets as well. These plants are tropical plants but can survive in most climates.
8. Nettles:ettle for nettles as they are great for mulch and have medicinal properties. I bet you never thought of using nettles to mulch your garden. Nettles have many uses in the garden. Just take care of the nettles so that they don’t take over your garden.
9. Roses: Roses are very popular plants, and they are quite easy to keep in most climates. I have roses in my garden and it is hard to come up with any reason why I wouldn’t want to plant them. Roses are very easy to take care of. They require about 6 hours of sunlight to be able to bloom properly, and they have to be watered. It’s really not that hard to grow roses.
10. Shrubs: If you are looking for a great shrub to use as mulch, look for Blue Shade and Silver Shade shrubs. The Blue Shade shrub has leaves that are an interesting shade of blue and the silver shades look even better. They are also disease resistant. The shrubs are nice and easy to take care of and they have great fragrances. You can also replace the shrubs each year with new plants.
11. Lilacs: They are a very hardy plant and they bloom good year after year. The lilac bush has fragrances and the flowers are very nice for bouquets.
