Enriching Your Garden
There are numerous natural mulching options, some of which you can even get from your backyard. Materials such as wood chips, bark, pine needles, straw, and grass clippings make the best natural decomposing mulches. Otherwise, you can consider incorporating non-decomposing, non-organic materials like black plastic, landscaping fabric, pebbles, recycled tires, and river rock. We do not recommend using recycled tires or black plastic. Here are some of the numerous benefits that enrichment will bring to your garden:
Retains Moisture
During summer and spring, mulch helps keep moisture near the plants. Woods chips hold moisture in the soil that can be used by plants. The layer of mulch reduces nutrients and competition for water and space from the other growing nearby plants.
Maintains Soil Nutrients
Mulching also helps to create as well as maintain healthy nutrient levels in your soil. The enrichment material protects the nutrients from being carried away by the wind or rain.
Controlling Weeds
Weeds are not just unsightly in the garden, they can also damage your plants and parasitic weeds can certainly kill them. Enrichment provides a layer on top of the soil, which makes it harder for weeds to break through in order to grow. The extra layer also provides another barrier that stops sunlight from reaching the open spaces in which weeds thrive. Wide areas are notoriously popular with weed growth, and this is because open spaces allow them to drop seeds and germinate into the soil easily. Enrichment deprives weeds of bare ground, which means that the seeds never get the opportunity to touch the soil. Weeds seeds can range from 200 to 54,000 seeds per square foot of soil.
Need help mulching your lawn? If you are in Weymouth, MA, you can always get in touch with Lana Landscape Inc. to help you. For inquiries and information, feel free to reach out to us at (857) 237-2096 now!