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Mulching!
Ever wondered what mulch does for your garden? Check out these incredible mulching service benefits for your garden from RLA. If you choose mulch correctly, will give your plants a healthy dose of nutrients, add carbon to the soil, feed the soil microbes, and add a touch of beauty to your patch of green. From cheap and organic mulches to insect repelling ones, there is plenty to choose from. Organic mulches break down, feed your microbes and give you nutrient-dense soil that helps plants grow. Mulching, in short, is good landscape practice.
The Benefits of Mulching Your Garden
Mulching is a major step in creating a landscape that is abundant, well-kept and full trees and plants that have happy microbes returning nutrient and minerals back to them. Mulch is a material that acts as a protective barrier on the ground around plants and provides the most important role: A protective house for soil microbes. There are two types of mulches —organic and non-organic. Both varieties provide many benefits.
What does mulch contain?
Materials used to create organic mulches include wood chips, pine, leaves, compost, grass clippings, animal manure and more. Non-organic mulches contain materials like rubber, plastic, gravel, and pebbles, as an ethical earth business we will not use any chemical mulches full stop. You have to consider your final application when you’re choosing mulch. Pine straw, for example, is great for acid loving plants like strawberries or blueberries. Before we learn more about good mulching practices, let us take a look at some of the benefits of mulching.
Top 5 reasons why you should mulch – Truths and Myths
- Moisture retention – Its true both organic and non-organic mulches retain soil moisture and prevent your plants from drying out, especially in the hot and dry months. Because of this, you will have to water less frequently. When you add mulch, microbes breakdown the mulch. They increase soil carbon and this intern helps retain moisture in the carbon like sponge.
- Inhibits the growth of weeds – Thats a bit of a myth.
If you mulch open spaces in your garden, you will stop weeds in their tracks.Low soil carbon is a prime reason weed grow. This section is not big enough to go into the full story.The mulch prevents sunlight from reaching the weeds and thereby inhibits weed germination and growth.Total myth, addition of a mulch with compost and manure mixed in increase soil carbon and weeds don’t grow in healthy soil. This will take time so be mindful. - Reduces soil erosion – So true, mulch acts as a barrier a sponge if you choose a good quality mulch, preventing rainwater from hitting the soil with force and washing it away. It also regulates soil temperature fluctuations that are known to damage plants and a happy home for microbes.
- Nourishes the soil – Not exactly. We need to feed and house soil microbes. We can’t feed plants. Microbes & Fungi have symbiotic relationships with plants, they seek out minerals and nutrients and give them to the plants via the roots in exchange for sugars.
- Wards off pests – Yes… but back up the bus. Its microbes and fungi that protect plants. Healthy soils with abundant microbes in balance ward of pests.
Certain varieties of mulch deter pests in your garden.Mulches that are highly fragrant or those that have insect repelling properties are the best. Cedar bark is one such example.
MULCH
Large Landscapes from $4.50 per square meter – Minimum area 1500 square meters – All prices include supply, laying of 50mm average depth and delivery of mulch. Additional charges may apply if we need to negotiate stairs or other obstacles or if we need to move materials.Medium Landscape from $5.10 per square meter – Minimum area 1000 square meters – All prices include supply, laying of 50mm average depth and delivery of mulch. Additional charges may apply if we need to negotiate stairs or other obstacles or if we need to move materials.Average Landscape from $6.50 per square meter – Minimum area 500 square meters – All prices include supply, laying of 50mm average depth and delivery of mulch. Additional charges may apply if we need to negotiate stairs or other obstacles or if we need to move materialsSmall Landscape from $8.80 per square meter – Minimum area 100 square meters – All prices include supply, laying of 50mm average depth and delivery of mulch. Additional charges may apply if we need to negotiate stairs or other obstacles or if we need to move materials
These prices from RLA are worked out from the average from years of experience. We are able to come out see your site conditions to give you a comprehensive quote. Call 0417 010 965
See our last post on Fungi – FYI….Wood mulches feed soil fungi.
Mycorrhizal Fungi: The Amazing Underground
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Mulching Tips
Organic mulches add value to the soil and promote soil micro-organism activity, To keep your Landscape abundant, make sure the mulch is between 75 and 100 mm in depth. Its a bit of a myth when we see quotes like “Don’t apply more than a 4-inch thick layer of mulch as this will stop water from getting into the soil”. This is a sponge layer of organic matter. Its will act like a slow releases irrigation down to your plants.
Forest Mulch
An economically sustainable mulch, consisting of a variety of mixed vegetation. It may vary in shape, colour and consistency. Very useful in retaining moisture and providing short term benefits to your garden.
These prices from RLA are worked out from the average from years of experience and are for forest mulch only. We are able to come out see your site conditions to give you a comprehensive quote. Call 0417 010 965
