What Materials Can Be Used For Mulch?
You can find mulching materials in your own yard.
Lawn clippings is an excellent mulch. May not particularly attractive for a flower bed, they work wonderfully in the vegetable garden. The fine texture allows them to be spread easily even around small plants. Because of the increased popularity of mulching lawnmowers, however, grass clippings are becoming scarce but provide many of the same benefits of mulching to lawns.
Newspaper as mulch in garden works especially well to control weeds.
Leaves are another readily available material to use as mulch. Leaf mold, or the decomposed remains of leaves, gives the forest floor its absorbent spongy structure.
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Compost makes a wonderful mulch. Compost not only improves the soil structure but provides an excellent source of plant nutrients.
Bark chips and composted bark mulch are used. These make a neat finish to the garden bed and will eventually improve the condition of the soil. These may last for 1 to 3 years or more depending on the size of the chips or how well composed the bark mulch is. Smaller chips will be easier to spread, especially around small plants. Depending on where you live, numerous other materials make excellent mulches.
Hay and straw work well in the vegetable garden, although they may harbor weed seeds.
Seaweed mulch
Ground corn cobs
Pine needles can also be used. Pine needles tend to increase the acidity of the soil so they work best around acid-loving plants such as rhododendrons and blueberries.
One idea I believe in is to shred local shrubs and trees and use as a mulch, then you have the best long lasting mulch.
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