Here's Why Mulching Peppers Is Important (+7 Great Mulches To Use) - Pepper Geek
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In this video, I talk about mulching peppers. Mulch is an invaluable gardening tool that can improve your growing results. Whether you grow in the ground or in raised beds, adding a layer of organic mulch has major benefits!
Learn about the benefits of mulching, 7 options to use, and some important tips to keep in mind.
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0:00 Intro
0:46 Benefits of mulching
2:17 Best types of garden mulch
6:00 Tips for mulching plants
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Perfect timing for me. Thanks as always
Spot on brother!! I been mulching for years and I cant agree more. I bag my leaves and grass and mulch with that
Thank you. I mulch my entire garden with straw for the summer growing season. Then I rake it back and cover with crushed leaves for winter. They break down well, and I till them into the soil in the spring. After I plant again, I rake the old straw onto the garden and add a layer of fresh straw on the top. This has worked well for me for 40 years. I love your videos and your recipes.
Wow that’s an interesting strategy, thanks for sharing!
Can't figure out how to leave an individual comment. What about coco? Or rocks?
im a first time gardener and its growing great so far this year. Already thinking abt what to do to replenish soil over the winter. I was thinking abt going to catch some blue gill and smaller fish and bury them in the garden. Hopefully it makes next year even better
love your videos. thanks for sharing.
thanks for the tips 🥰
I use grass clippings. I only use organic lawn fertilizer. I can add all summer if needed. After I pull up the plants in November, I just rake up the clippings and mix with leaves for the next seasons compost. Thanks for the other little tips.
Thank you very mulch!
Pine needles make excellent mulch, I love using them. They knit together well too and stay put and the look is nice as well. There aren’t a lot of bugs with an affinity to pine needles like with leaf mulch or hay. I do use a lot of leaf mulch though, shred up a ton in the Fall and put back in those large paper bags for Spring mulching. My decorative pampas brass makes great mulch too. I have to cut it back to the ground in Spring anyway so put it to use in the garden.
Thank you Calvin for another informative and helpful video. I’m considering to start mulching my containers with chilis and tomatoes this year in order to save water. Do you have any experience or recommendations on Miscanthus mulch? I've read that it's pH neutral and can be mixed into the soil at the end of the season to help to aerate the compacted soil.
The mulch staying on top is really important for wood mulch. Absolutely will leech nitrogen from the plants. I use rice hulls (used as barn stall bedding) that make a good mulch layer but can be turned into the soil for aeration and they break down quicker than some others.
I’ve never used our pine needles as mulch but will definitely try this fall. 2023. Our one acre property had a few pot holes and that’s where said pine needles went every year to level out. 🇨🇦👍👍🏽👍🏾
Canadian here as well. Never thought of pine needles either. I think that's what I'm going try this weekend. Easy to move and put down. It's not going anywhere. I would prefer leaves but I think next year I'll do compost/leaves/and needles on top last. I do my pepper plants in 1 gallon plastic pots with the bottom cut out so I can move them around till they Root into the garden and they stay there at that point. Was using fabric but I'm finding less watering this way making it much easier
If ive never said it here it goes..i love u.. th hacks to ur vids i learned how to grow my own peppers in the Netherlands after moving out here and i missed having Mexican peppers, im mex-American so i use alot of different peppers for our foods.
That’s a unique journey you’re on - I’m glad our channel had helped you bring some of those flavors along with you 😋❤️🔥
i use pine needles. it's my second year reusing the ones from last year. they're great because they let the water pass through and don't stick together
Hi great video! I put pine needles in my compost in January and they’re gone now! I need carbon this time to keep composting and I have a customer who has lots of pine needles. All my bed and pathways are mulched.👍🏻🤠
I am growing peppers for the first time in 3 and 5 gallon containers and am in zone 10a southern central Florida. I am currently using Spanish Moss for mulch as it is free and plentiful in my area. It is also a living mulch that draws nutrients from the air not the plants. It is very easy to apply and remove when I add any amendments. Some people have experienced chiggers in Spanish Moss. I got mine out of trees and have had no issues. If it is on the ground it seems more likely to have some type of insect infestation. This is my first time using it so I can't speak to that directly, just passing on what I have read. I have surrounded the base of my plants with Solo cups cut roughly in half horizontally and use the larger top portion of the cup to keep the moss from touching the main stem. 1 month in and so far so good.
Last season i switched from straw to Tractor Supply Flake Premium Pine Animal Shavings due to the rogue seeds in the straw
Pine Bark Mini Nuggets is the best container mulch. They're small and very tidy looking.
I think I'll buy a bag and try it this year in a few of my buckets
I have used my shredded paper from the electric paper shredder. The shredder cuts the paper into fine strands that can be easily placed around the garden bed. Placing cardboard or newspaper down first allows me to make a small collar around the base of the p[lant, this prevents wet mulch from getting to the stem of the plants and rotting it out. I have found that snails and slugs do not like it. the paper will compost into the soil and hold the moisture.
Mulch! Yes! Been beating this dead horse for over 20 years.
What about cypress mulch, I have heard that it will also keep the bugs away?
Off topic, I'm trying to find or identify a chile I grew back in the 90s. I remember(possibly wrong) the name as "Thai Dragon F1 hybrid", but I don't for sure remember the company so not much help even if they have records that old and an employee that remembers the details.
All of my current online catalog searches yield "Thai Dragon" cultivars with descriptions that don't match the plants I grew. I grew out two plants and would have noticed if they didn't match the catalog description, they also matched each other so I doubt I had an outcross.
The plants I grew were fairly vigerous 24-30 inch high, with **pendant fruits** of the thai chile style, a good fraction of the pods had some curl or curve, and they set such a crop that I had to both stake the plants up and tie a string around the circumfrence to support the branches after they started to break.
All of the catalog descriptions I currently find have upright fruits that look fairly straight, some open polinated are described as much smaller plants and the hybrids as somewhat smaller than I grew.
I use fine straw on everything.
One billion percent! Mulch mulch mulch! I prefer rice hulls, but anything mentioned will do!
That plant in the pot though... That's a *thiccc* stem! Is there any specific mulch that lends itself better for plants in pots compared to plants in the ground?
Haha - not really, though it is easier to work with a finer mulch (like shredded leaves or fine woodchips/bark, etc.)
Do you recommend mulching container peppers? I’m in southern AZ.
It’s optional, but can still provide some benefit to decrease watering needs and maybe add a touch of nutrition to the soil over the year
Pepper geek, off topic. My habanero's leaves did not fall off but are sagging, overnight. It has been raining here a lot in Central Texas. Is my plant too far gone? It looks very sad.
The pine needles surprised me. I was told that 1. they're too acidic and 2. being sticky when it's hot is a problem for moisture penetration and attracts bugs.
I use grass clippings.. or whatever comes out of the mower bagger - my lawn isn't exactly 100% grass.
@@markzambelli thank you.. good to know. I think my source was my grandfather - who passed in the 90s. It's an ingrained thing.. I'll get over it. I have tons of southern yellow pine needles.. the long ones.
@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Oooh, what a resource😀
There is a lot to be said from advice and knowledge passed down from elders (I learnt so much from my grandad also) but we are also advancing our knowledge and learning new things all the time. We have to be vigilant against practices that 'have always been done this way' based on assumptions... often things _sound_ as if they should be true, but when looked into turn out to be wrong... we're good at doing that and are often surprised to learn the real truth (like I have countless times😉)
As an aside, trying to turn your garden soil more ericacious so as to grow acid-loving plants (rhododendrons for example) is really hard!... it often requires changing out soil or years of hefty amendments at best... coffee grounds (which are neutral once used for coffee) and pine needles won't affect a thing, so I would love to have the needles nearby like you are fortunate enough to have. You could always do a soil-pH reading before and next season to compare if you're concerned.
Take care, and may your growing season be long and aphid-free!
I never had problems with slugs until I mulched my peppers
I’m using shredded hardwood for the first time this year. Thoughts? Straw is messy and breaks down. Hoping for good results
I use straw/grass BECAUSE it breaks down quickly, adding nitrogen and other trace nutrients to the soil - plus it attracts worms like crazy, another benefit! I also live on a very windy hill and have never had a problem with it becoming messy, just water and tamp it down well after applying to keep it from blowing around until it "settles". Woodchips you have to be careful with - the microbial action that helps to break it down can deplete nitrogen from the upper layer of the soil over a longer period than other mulches, so if you have woodchips around shallow-rooted plants (i.e. lettuce) be sure to add compost or/and nitrogen rich fertilizer as well and watch your soil's N levels by doing regular soil tests throughout the season.
@@kevin_hannon thanks for the tips! I have two raised beds and then containers. I am using straw on the raised beds still and agree about it breaking down! I am trying shredded hardwood in the containers. I should have been more clear. The containers I found the straw messy and the breakdown got a little funky at times
@@Steve-sp7qu Ah, Gotcha! I do the same! Have some Calabrian hot peppers in pots, and I agree the chips look better than the straw in a pot set-up, noticed I had to fertilize about 20-25% more with the woodchips (It might just be the pepper was also a heavy feeder, not sure which) but other than that it was pretty much the same feeding schedule as my raised beds.
I need so much mulch 😅
I bought a lot of red mulch... is that bad for my peppers?
wondering if my no-dig bed needs mulch? its already 6 inches of compost. assuming that's enough.
I think putting down something heavy like wood chips would still be a plus
Why do you need to dry out grass clippings before applying to gardens?
They can cake together and become anaerobic/smelly. It's better to mulch with dried out grass that is lightweight and less green.
Won't mulch bring in more slugs and snails though?
They are a bane of my pepper plants and are trying to keep them away as much as possible :(
It definitely does. Unless you are in a crazy hot climate, you don't need it if you water regularly
Cardboard! I just take the tape off of it, and it's free!
hmm, I was thinking about mulch for my balcony trays, but dont like organic stuff there because it can get windy and cause a mess. I was thinking about using stones or crushed marble, but I'm not sure how effective it would be for soil water retention.
I feel stones are good going into fall with keeping temps warmer from the sun but early season I feel would not warm up enough and will probably keep the soil cooler then you like.
Good luck finding free wood chips in my area..
We have 3 different mills/power plants that burn wood chips to produce electricity..
I know cause we sell it to them in 48 foot box trailers 38 tons at a time.. 🤣
Leaf mold here
I'm using egg cartons, they are made of paper
If you use leaves, make sure they are not from a Black Walnut tree!
Butternut tree (juglans cinerea) too.
Yes avoid walnut is correct
Can't believe McDonald's just throws away used straw