You will never have a chance to try it at any younger age - so try it very soon. 👍😎 Besides, it taste better than the store stuffs because you can pick it ripe, not picked green and force ripened. 🙂 yum.
mulching absorbs water combined with compost. It saved my land from landslides. What takes thousands to make a supporting concrete wall, I did for 10 USD.
Honestly I have no intention of ever starting a garden, but I like hearing this guy talk about it. You can hear the excitement and passion in his voice and I enjoy it.
Don't you just love the chemical lawn spray ad before a video about gardening! It's just as thrilling as getting an ad about a new casino before a gambling addiction video.
This is my absolute favorite channel on RUclips right now, I’m on a watching binge! You are entertaining and very informative; I love how you actually show all you’re doing and even take the time to show it weeks or months away so we can see what happens! Thank you ✨
I've build up to a bit over 50 square metres of food gardens over the last few years. Never gardened anything before. We also have 14 lovely chooks and 13 quail. Now at 58, I see where my passion lays. You Mark, are a bloody champion! Thanks for the constant info, tips and inspiration.
Although I will never have a garden the likes of yours, it really is inspiring to see how much work and effort you put into your land and these videos! Thank you kindly and best of growing to you!
It's so nice to see gardeners encouraging others to grow. Being retired I've now acquired a small green house and I also have raised beds. When I was a boy I helped my grandmother in the garden with her beautiful flower beds. I've never forgotten her saying to me "I talk to my flowers" , Listen to The Voice of Nature, no matter what your station in life.
"We're coming into winter and I'm hoping to grow a ton of tomatoes". I almost feel like you're making fun of me, living in the Alps ;-) Thanks for another great video :-)
It does sound a bit odd trying to grow toms in "winter" - true. Our winters can get below zero C and also produce the odd frost so growing tomatoes isn't without risk but usually we get a good crop. Thank you :)
I wish I knew all these mulch in garden benefits yesterday when this lady had me take out all the mulch my crew laid down onto her 20x15 foot garden bed
Mikey Pop I’ve started chucking lawn clippings into a dry hot concrete area about 2m x 1m, and spreading them out. Dried in about 2 weeks, much much better mulch, and can go straight on anything. Makes a helluva mess if it rains right after you have mowed, but luckily it’s that weird little part no one can see or goes. Also, having the concrete bottom makes raking and sweeping it out easy.
Yesterday I just planted my tomatoes cucumbers and herbs here in Toronto. I had grass clipping from the last two weeks . I thought to ask you Mark if it is ok to use and here you are , woke up checked the RUclips and here is the video ....pooofff ! Magic !
The first 10 years of growing veggies I mulched with grass clippings only no fertilizer. I had the best garden less plants and most veggies. Then I hired someone to mow the grass and my garden suffered terribly. My garden guy passed away last year so now I mow and collect the grass again. My garden is much better again... I guess ignorance is bliss. I will never stop the grass clippings. I am rolling in much since I have great grass.... Thanks for the video.....
I’m really learning a lot about how to grow my own food at home. He’s a one stop shop of all the info needed to do it for someone who knows nothing, no farming background at all. This is really appreciated.
After spending some time on your channel I thought I utilized my time in the correct way by seeing the correct video about mulch uses. I appreciate your work. It was really a nice channel and I was really impressed by seeing this video.
I just added wood chips in my garden and I live in zone 9B Central Florida and it makes a ton of difference because the store was drying out fast and stressing the plants out. Now I don't have to water everyday and they're not stressed when I get home.
When I had chickens I spread my cuttings and bed cleanings in the chicken house. The chickens loved to scratch through it and break it up, contributing their rich droppings making the mulch wonderful!
I'm gardening in Lower Austria, where it's not too warm, most of the times. I use grass for mulching (dry for two days) and some of the poultry litter and that turned my garden into very good land.
I love mulch. Started heavily mulching last year instead of bare hoed earth and the change is pretty fantastic. I use fresh grass cuttings I get from a gardener who cuts the grass for the houses in the area. Some people are worried that the mulch will encourage slugs. Slugs eat dead vegetation as well as fresh - if you remove the dead stuff then all they have left to eat are your crops. Centipedes and Rove beetles also live in the mulch and both eat slugs and slug eggs. The birds also love to scrat around looking for creepy crawlies and the slugs aren't hiding under rocks or in crevices as much during the day so they can become bird food. The worms have been digging in the mulch for me, it's held the moisture, watered the garden as all those grass blades catch dew and mists, grass has an NPK or around 4, 0.5, 2 so as it breaks down it feeds the soil, it also adds organic matter and keeps the weeds down. When it rains it acts as a shock absorber stopping the soil from getting eroded or compacted through the force of the rain drops, it slows the movement of the water giving it more time to seep into the ground and it acts as a sponge absorbing some of the rain. In a year the clay soil in half my plot has improved significantly so I'm going to keep on doing it.
Stopping run off is such a good thing about mulch. You can also mulch with rock and other inorganics, which will also keep moisture in and help when watering. But won't provide much in the way of nutrients. Glancing the back garden, leaf fall is a natural mulch, it's late-winter here in the UK, and brushing leaves aside reveals new growth of plants underneath, that are protected with this insulating layer. Mulch is great, and nature naturally does it. You do have to give something back to the soil if you are removing something - and mulch is a great fit. I do wonder where it all goes sometimes at the beginning of the year when I've stacked a few inches on top and worry I've put on too much! But it all goes in time. Great videos and enthusiasm here.
I always look forward to watching your videos. This video is yet another gem! Thank you for sharing Mark! I can't wait to turn our lawn clippings into mulch for our garden! You just saved us quite a bit of money from not having to buy mulch this year. Thanks a ton!
@K Barnes "Walnut leaves can be composted because the juglone toxin breaks down when exposed to air, water and bacteria. The toxic effect can be degraded in two to four weeks. In the soil, breakdown may take up to two months after the living walnut tree has been removed. Mulch or woodchips from black walnut are not recommended for plants sensitive to juglone. However, composting the woodchips for a minimum of six months allows the chemical to break down to a safe level even for plants sensitive to juglone." www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/jul/070701.htm
Mark i love your vids you are the most straight up informative easy to under stand guy out there! I get supper inspiered every time i watch ,Thank you for your time, You are the BEST!! Thanks Rich from upstate NY and God Bless!
I have a fallen rotten cedar tree fallen in my forest, you've inspired me to harvest it for my blackberries, the irony is I was just looking at buying mulch lol, it's a gorgeous red cedar top
Because you used the quail manure you added the nitrogen to help breakdown the wood chips. If you don’t do this step the wood chips will take nitrogen from the plants
i use lawn clippings for mulch.. i left a batch in a pile for 5 days last week.. when i went to spread it, it had so much mycellium and bacteria inside the pile, nearly the whole thing was white... beautiful!!!! when i dig in a bed to the dirt through already spread mulch, i got a bout a dozen worms per shovel scoop in the dirt underneath.. also beautiful!!! i love lawn clipping mulch!!!!
I have a bale of straw to use as mulch and now I am saving all the grass trimmings for mulch as well. I just leave them in the sun a few days to dry out a bit them spread them in the raised garden beds.
I started watching this video, paused it and went and bought mulch and put it in my garden, its a few hours later and now I finished the video. Great stuff, keep up the awesome work!
Lemongrass for mulch 😮, tomatoes in winter, sometimes i really envy you. We have snow on the mountains again and in Vienna we have refreshing 10 degrees at 11:30h, the night before we had 3 degrees rain and wind. My cucumber plants are toast 😢. Enjoy the sunshine, greetings from Austria! ❤️
You are so funny!!! I really enjoy watching your channel and when I need some info I always come to see your thoughts and ideas first!!! I enjoy all of your videos, thankyou!!!
Another benefit to mulching is it helps keep slugs off your plants. The more jagged the edges of mulch the better. Slugs and snails hate the chipped up pallets we have all over our garden.
My son told me to watch this Self sufficient Me and I love tomatoes and I prepared the garden bed and added my compost and then mulch sugar cane and have ended up with 4 massive plants for free love the videos
I have just started gardening and fascinated by permaculture. This man is really inspiring and gives really understandable advice, sound and effect. Thank you for work and dedication, invaluable-
Ah, I thought you were talking about fish emulsion "mulsh" in all of your videos, and was worried that as a vegetarian I was missing a vital gardening ingredient by not using fish product fertilizer. I watch this video and realize it's just your lovely accent ❤
Actually I am not mulching my garden before. But been realising when I've seen of your previous vid. I tried it. It is very true mulching is good for the plants and you. You don't need water the plants everyday. Didn't dry up quickly and plants are happy too... Happy mulching ☺️
When sowing seeds straight into the ground, like beetroot and carrots for example, I like to mulch the whole bed first, then, run a drill line, separating the mulch, and giving the seeds a place to grow. And this way, the seedlings are already mulched...
That was an informative video. Thanks. I've been using mulch for years and was intrigued to find that you don't mulch your garlic, which is something I've done with no ill effects. However, on replaying your video you clarified that your climate his hot and humid. Mine is hot and dry. I can see where humidity would be a factor. As you mentioned, mulch will help protect plant roots from excessive heat. Yes, but I don't mulch my plants (especially peppers and tomatoes) at the beginning of the planting season. I feel this allows the soil to warm up more quickly. Cheers
Poultry manure is an excellent way to return nitrates to the soil. You have an amazing healthy garden. Just started watching your channel, but quickly becoming a fan.
Wow, yes! We're going from deluging rain then hot hot heat that is ruining the garden. In my area the ground freezes to about 3' down. I've still put in a worm tunnel, but don't expect much from it until next year. I'm using hemp bale.
I'm so excited I found a new gardening channel. I only use straw and leaves for now but would love to get wood chips. I should rent a chipper for a day. Good idea. Pricing out wood chippers was disappointing.
I have to convince my hubby that all kinds of mulch that you stayed here are the best! He likes a well kept garden area with no nutrients. He will always take take out my fall and winter leaves and branches, even after I tell him to leave it!!! I haven’t quite convinced him yet. 🥴 But I always have hopes for our new year! Thanks for all the info, I’ll have to have him watch this!
Just bought 20 kilos of flax mulch (it was sold as horse litter) as we're not living in a climate where sugar cane is grown, so probably it would be more expensive. I guess the flax will do the trick. 🙂 We got the garden a year ago and we haven't tried this before. I'm looking forward to trying and learning the mulching! 👍
I made mulch this year from the bushes in the front garden using a small electric wood chipper. Once the mulch was about 6 weeks old I could tell from the smell it was starting to breakdown so I mixed it with organic soil. I took this mixture and used it for my potato towers. Wish me luck because I don’t really know what I’m doing. Lol
I've discovered that using cedar mulch, missed a little with the dirt I'm planting in, helps to keep the bugs and weeds away. I also put it around the outside. It's wonderful!
In our moderate climate (zone 8A) I mulch with (hot composted) compost. Using compost instead of straw and the like helps against slugs. (The high temperature composting helps destroy pathogens and seeds).
I live in a hot, dry climate, so obviously i have to mulch, and i tend to go thick with it. But i've noticed that fine mulch tends to wick up the water of the bed (this was especially bad with coco coir and mulched straw). So i switched to mulching with straight straw, because it gave me the best results. I think because all the straw stalks lay horizontally, they do not provide a good surface for the water to wick up to.
I collect everything from redwood detritus (they are messy, shed a lot of stuff) to leaves, lawn clippings from my place and the neighbors. Of course loads of wood chips when I can get it. Never bought the stuff other than paying a small fee for chips, always want more but can produce a lot right on my own property.
I have spread so much mulch it has been crazy (mostly pine and cedar). Most surprising part is how fast it breaks down back into the soil. It is a great way to care for the soil quality but note it does require re-application every other year or so.
Come on big mulch companies! Sponsor this man!
A garden centre needs to help him out
Don’t sell out to Big Mulch man... you can take our mulch, but you can never take our FREEDOM!!!
Haha, Looks like they did!
Did he get a sponsorship??!
Big Pharma, big tech, big mulch. Can’t trust them! 😀
I don't have a garden and I don't have much of a green thumb, but seeing this guy just makes you want to try it out some day.
Angelofexecution it’s really fun and honestly not that hard. There is work involved like pulling weeds and watering but it’s easily worth it
Try something in a pot to start with . Can do it even if you don't have a garden that way
You will never have a chance to try it at any younger age - so try it very soon. 👍😎
Besides, it taste better than the store stuffs because you can pick it ripe, not picked green and force ripened. 🙂 yum.
Angelofexecution yesss he makes me want to run off too Australia to mulch lollll
Try some cut and come again lettuce on a windowsill! Easy and fun ☺️ a great way to get into growing your own!
Mulch is the magic ingredient that many home gardeners haven’t heard of... it’s wonderful stuff!
Mulch is my trick to grow in the harsh environment of the gulf region otherwise the soil will be as dry as biscuits, it saves a lot in water too 👍
mulching absorbs water combined with compost. It saved my land from landslides. What takes thousands to make a supporting concrete wall, I did for 10 USD.
Honestly I have no intention of ever starting a garden, but I like hearing this guy talk about it. You can hear the excitement and passion in his voice and I enjoy it.
Don't you just love the chemical lawn spray ad before a video about gardening! It's just as thrilling as getting an ad about a new casino before a gambling addiction video.
RUclips Premium is a beautiful thing.
@@ManawatuFlyFishing Doesn't work on Android. Plus Premium has bonus content and you can play in background.
@@H3xx99 I have to agree with you - YT Premium has improved my viewing experience 10 fold and it's not bad value either! Cheers :)
I thought everyone abhorred ads. I use the skip button. Damned ads. Use saved time to collect free mulch your dum-dum neighbors put to curb. 💩
How about that smh
This is my absolute favorite channel on RUclips right now, I’m on a watching binge! You are entertaining and very informative; I love how you actually show all you’re doing and even take the time to show it weeks or months away so we can see what happens! Thank you ✨
I've build up to a bit over 50 square metres of food gardens over the last few years. Never gardened anything before. We also have 14 lovely chooks and 13 quail. Now at 58, I see where my passion lays.
You Mark, are a bloody champion!
Thanks for the constant info, tips and inspiration.
This is Mark's passion and he is always enthusiastic, entertaining, and informative. 🤗
Much admiration for this hard-working mate ! 💓
Although I will never have a garden the likes of yours, it really is inspiring to see how much work and effort you put into your land and these videos! Thank you kindly and best of growing to you!
Thank you! And I'm sure you will agree that you don't need a large property to grow plenty of food for a family. All the best :)
It's so nice to see gardeners encouraging others to grow. Being retired I've now acquired a small green house and I also have raised beds. When I was a boy I helped my grandmother in the garden with her beautiful flower beds. I've never forgotten her saying to me "I talk to my flowers" , Listen to The Voice of Nature, no matter what your station in life.
"We're coming into winter and I'm hoping to grow a ton of tomatoes". I almost feel like you're making fun of me, living in the Alps ;-) Thanks for another great video :-)
It does sound a bit odd trying to grow toms in "winter" - true. Our winters can get below zero C and also produce the odd frost so growing tomatoes isn't without risk but usually we get a good crop. Thank you :)
I live in Alberta, Canada. Winter is when we grow layers. 🙄☃️
I wish I knew all these mulch in garden benefits yesterday when this lady had me take out all the mulch my crew laid down onto her 20x15 foot garden bed
I dont even garden this man is just too entertaining.
Dude you should, though!😂😂😂
@@RunninUpThatHillh For real tho
He is indeed an entertainer. He is like Steve Irwin but gardening!
Same here!
@Anthony Taylor Why are you still here? Havent you got some MULCHING to do!?
God bless you Mark. You are an inspiration for all of us! 😍
FACTS !!!!
This must be how a miner feels when he discovers gold. Your presentation is perfect. Your info priceless. Muchos gracias from San Diego, CA
I use mulch on my garden all the time. My plants grow huge. Last year I had tomato trees. They grew about 7 feet tall.
Gardening Australia should hire you. Better segments than most of what they show these days.
Always stick a bit of lawn clippings on top of my raise beds. Worked well so far!
Mikey Pop I’ve started chucking lawn clippings into a dry hot concrete area about 2m x 1m, and spreading them out. Dried in about 2 weeks, much much better mulch, and can go straight on anything. Makes a helluva mess if it rains right after you have mowed, but luckily it’s that weird little part no one can see or goes. Also, having the concrete bottom makes raking and sweeping it out easy.
I think you just talked me into starting a garden, haven't had one in years. Thanks for the motivation 🍺
Sometimes I think a grave yard can make a good garden, thumbs up to this man!!!
I wish RUclips allowed us to post the pictures of the big difference you've made in our garden. My tomatoes, eggplants and mini-pines love you, dude.
Send it to him in Facebook. He's very busy though so don't get down if he doesn't reply.
So happy to be in the Self-Sufficient Me university of gardening. Thank You
Yesterday I just planted my tomatoes cucumbers and herbs here in Toronto. I had grass clipping from the last two weeks . I thought to ask you Mark if it is ok to use and here you are , woke up checked the RUclips and here is the video ....pooofff ! Magic !
The first 10 years of growing veggies I mulched with grass clippings only no fertilizer. I had the best garden less plants and most veggies. Then I hired someone to mow the grass and my garden suffered terribly. My garden guy passed away last year so now I mow and collect the grass again. My garden is much better again... I guess ignorance is bliss. I will never stop the grass clippings. I am rolling in much since I have great grass.... Thanks for the video.....
I’m really learning a lot about how to grow my own food at home. He’s a one stop shop of all the info needed to do it for someone who knows nothing, no farming background at all. This is really appreciated.
After spending some time on your channel I thought I utilized my time in the correct way by seeing the correct video about mulch uses. I appreciate your work.
It was really a nice channel and I was really impressed by seeing this video.
I’ve only recently found your channel, but I’m really enjoying your videos. Many of your tips will work well in my area of northeast Oklahoma.
I just added wood chips in my garden and I live in zone 9B Central Florida and it makes a ton of difference because the store was drying out fast and stressing the plants out. Now I don't have to water everyday and they're not stressed when I get home.
When I had chickens I spread my cuttings and bed cleanings in the chicken house. The chickens loved to scratch through it and break it up, contributing their rich droppings making the mulch wonderful!
I'm gardening in Lower Austria, where it's not too warm, most of the times. I use grass for mulching (dry for two days) and some of the poultry litter and that turned my garden into very good land.
I came for his accent. I stayed for his knowledge.
Your show is like a set of encyclopedias for gardening, thanks!
I thought I had watched all of your videos but I just found this one! What an awesome find!
I love mulch. Started heavily mulching last year instead of bare hoed earth and the change is pretty fantastic.
I use fresh grass cuttings I get from a gardener who cuts the grass for the houses in the area.
Some people are worried that the mulch will encourage slugs. Slugs eat dead vegetation as well as fresh - if you remove the dead stuff then all they have left to eat are your crops. Centipedes and Rove beetles also live in the mulch and both eat slugs and slug eggs. The birds also love to scrat around looking for creepy crawlies and the slugs aren't hiding under rocks or in crevices as much during the day so they can become bird food.
The worms have been digging in the mulch for me, it's held the moisture, watered the garden as all those grass blades catch dew and mists, grass has an NPK or around 4, 0.5, 2 so as it breaks down it feeds the soil, it also adds organic matter and keeps the weeds down. When it rains it acts as a shock absorber stopping the soil from getting eroded or compacted through the force of the rain drops, it slows the movement of the water giving it more time to seep into the ground and it acts as a sponge absorbing some of the rain.
In a year the clay soil in half my plot has improved significantly so I'm going to keep on doing it.
Stopping run off is such a good thing about mulch. You can also mulch with rock and other inorganics, which will also keep moisture in and help when watering. But won't provide much in the way of nutrients. Glancing the back garden, leaf fall is a natural mulch, it's late-winter here in the UK, and brushing leaves aside reveals new growth of plants underneath, that are protected with this insulating layer. Mulch is great, and nature naturally does it. You do have to give something back to the soil if you are removing something - and mulch is a great fit. I do wonder where it all goes sometimes at the beginning of the year when I've stacked a few inches on top and worry I've put on too much! But it all goes in time. Great videos and enthusiasm here.
Because of your videos, I’ve decided to mulch my small garden. I needed 3bags.
I always look forward to watching your videos. This video is yet another gem! Thank you for sharing Mark! I can't wait to turn our lawn clippings into mulch for our garden! You just saved us quite a bit of money from not having to buy mulch this year. Thanks a ton!
Leaves from last fall, left to get mouldy and rotted... Fantastic mulch (don't use black walnut leaves, they're killers)
only some plant are sensitive to walnut leaves, and when compost its gone
@K Barnes "Walnut leaves can be composted because the juglone toxin breaks down when exposed to air, water and bacteria. The toxic effect can be degraded in two to four weeks. In the soil, breakdown may take up to two months after the living walnut tree has been removed. Mulch or woodchips from black walnut are not recommended for plants sensitive to juglone. However, composting the woodchips for a minimum of six months allows the chemical to break down to a safe level even for plants sensitive to juglone." www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/jul/070701.htm
Mulching is the best, I have been mulching for 60 years... mostly grass clippings and straw. Nice video...
Mark i love your vids you are the most straight up informative easy to under stand guy out there! I get supper inspiered every time i watch ,Thank you for your time, You are the BEST!! Thanks Rich from upstate NY and God Bless!
Thank you Rich! :)
Thanks heaps for sharing. I learn a lot from you. Have a good one.
I have a fallen rotten cedar tree fallen in my forest, you've inspired me to harvest it for my blackberries, the irony is I was just looking at buying mulch lol, it's a gorgeous red cedar top
Because you used the quail manure you added the nitrogen to help breakdown the wood chips. If you don’t do this step the wood chips will take nitrogen from the plants
This guy's energy is contigious. He has made me and my husband gardeners :)
You are da man Mark. I just love watching your videos, so educational.
i use lawn clippings for mulch.. i left a batch in a pile for 5 days last week.. when i went to spread it, it had so much mycellium and bacteria inside the pile, nearly the whole thing was white... beautiful!!!! when i dig in a bed to the dirt through already spread mulch, i got a bout a dozen worms per shovel scoop in the dirt underneath.. also beautiful!!! i love lawn clipping mulch!!!!
I have a bale of straw to use as mulch and now I am saving all the grass trimmings for mulch as well. I just leave them in the sun a few days to dry out a bit them spread them in the raised garden beds.
I started watching this video, paused it and went and bought mulch and put it in my garden, its a few hours later and now I finished the video. Great stuff, keep up the awesome work!
I'm beginning to think "Mulsh" was the proper pronunciation this whole time lol it flows off the tounge easier really. Fantastic channel 👏 😁
I'm from the United states and I'm adopting your mulch pronunciation! Mulsh mulsh mulsh mulsh....
Like the nod to Ferris Bueller at the end 😊
Just came from a video 4 years old， and I gotta say, your style of presenting has improved heaps! Good on ya!
This guy is like a real life Australian example of that old UK show from the 1970s, “The Good Life”.
Lemongrass for mulch 😮, tomatoes in winter, sometimes i really envy you. We have snow on the mountains again and in Vienna we have refreshing 10 degrees at 11:30h, the night before we had 3 degrees rain and wind. My cucumber plants are toast 😢.
Enjoy the sunshine, greetings from Austria! ❤️
We're still getting snow in Vermont in the US...so much for that whole Global Warming Theory
I just love your videos! So uplifting and soothing.
You are so funny!!! I really enjoy watching your channel and when I need some info I always come to see your thoughts and ideas first!!! I enjoy all of your videos, thankyou!!!
Another benefit to mulching is it helps keep slugs off your plants. The more jagged the edges of mulch the better. Slugs and snails hate the chipped up pallets we have all over our garden.
Love that lawnmower mulch trick - I'm gonna get into it....
I just mulched my vegetable garden 4 days ago. Now the soil stays cool and moist, best decision I ever made 😊❤️
My son told me to watch this Self sufficient Me and I love tomatoes and I prepared the garden bed and added my compost and then mulch sugar cane and have ended up with 4 massive plants for free love the videos
I have just started gardening and fascinated by permaculture. This man is really inspiring and gives really understandable advice, sound and effect. Thank you for work and dedication, invaluable-
This is perfect for me. I just put a garden in my backyard but the soil absorbs little if any water. Thanks for the help
Cheers Ben! :)
Even from the start I knew I was watching something and important! Cheers mate!
Your humor and content is great
Thanks
Ah, I thought you were talking about fish emulsion "mulsh" in all of your videos, and was worried that as a vegetarian I was missing a vital gardening ingredient by not using fish product fertilizer. I watch this video and realize it's just your lovely accent ❤
Actually I am not mulching my garden before. But been realising when I've seen of your previous vid. I tried it. It is very true mulching is good for the plants and you.
You don't need water the plants everyday. Didn't dry up quickly and plants are happy too... Happy mulching ☺️
Great video on Mulsh.
Everytime i watch his videos i feel like im at school at a presentation or something lol his content has me intrigued
Bloody good stuff mate, don't ever change!
When sowing seeds straight into the ground, like beetroot and carrots for example, I like to mulch the whole bed first, then, run a drill line, separating the mulch, and giving the seeds a place to grow. And this way, the seedlings are already mulched...
Mark you are the king mulcher!
Good day. Lovely to see & hear Man with great calming attitude.
Thank you so much for these videos pal! You're an inspiration!
That was an informative video. Thanks.
I've been using mulch for years and was intrigued to find that you don't mulch your garlic, which is something I've done with no ill effects. However, on replaying your video you clarified that your climate his hot and humid. Mine is hot and dry. I can see where humidity would be a factor.
As you mentioned, mulch will help protect plant roots from excessive heat. Yes, but I don't mulch my plants (especially peppers and tomatoes) at the beginning of the planting season. I feel this allows the soil to warm up more quickly.
Cheers
Poultry manure is an excellent way to return nitrates to the soil. You have an amazing healthy garden. Just started watching your channel, but quickly becoming a fan.
Love your channel. You cover a LOT in each video. Cheers!
Thank you! I try to jam as much as I can into around 12 minutes. Cheers :)
Wow, yes! We're going from deluging rain then hot hot heat that is ruining the garden. In my area the ground freezes to about 3' down. I've still put in a worm tunnel, but don't expect much from it until next year. I'm using hemp bale.
Love the videos... Knuckle head next door?! you mean gentlemen next door!!! more befitting of a gentleman like yourself i do believe!
I will surely add this to my gardening tips..
I use to put my rabbits litter tray straight into the patch, and always felt like it wasn't doing anything miraculous, now I know why!
Pine straw is great mulch, especially over winter.
I'm so excited I found a new gardening channel. I only use straw and leaves for now but would love to get wood chips. I should rent a chipper for a day. Good idea. Pricing out wood chippers was disappointing.
This video was right on time...you rock!!!
I have to convince my hubby that all kinds of mulch that you stayed here are the best!
He likes a well kept garden area with no nutrients. He will always take take out my fall and winter leaves and branches, even after I tell him to leave it!!! I haven’t quite convinced him yet. 🥴 But I always have hopes for our new year! Thanks for all the info, I’ll have to have him watch this!
Maybe you can convince him to try wood chip mulch, as that's often used because it looks nice and neat
Berkeloid yes I think I have him convinced on wood chis and straw
Watching these I decided to make a small raised garden bed with old repurposed tires. Hopefully it will work.
Thanks
Just bought 20 kilos of flax mulch (it was sold as horse litter) as we're not living in a climate where sugar cane is grown, so probably it would be more expensive. I guess the flax will do the trick. 🙂 We got the garden a year ago and we haven't tried this before. I'm looking forward to trying and learning the mulching! 👍
Sir you are excellent and knowledgeable.
I am in love with your channel. I am from Turkey but living in Kazakhstan. A cold climate. But I will follow your advises as much I can.
I made mulch this year from the bushes in the front garden using a small electric wood chipper. Once the mulch was about 6 weeks old I could tell from the smell it was starting to breakdown so I mixed it with organic soil. I took this mixture and used it for my potato towers. Wish me luck because I don’t really know what I’m doing. Lol
I've discovered that using cedar mulch, missed a little with the dirt I'm planting in, helps to keep the bugs and weeds away. I also put it around the outside. It's wonderful!
In our moderate climate (zone 8A) I mulch with (hot composted) compost. Using compost instead of straw and the like helps against slugs. (The high temperature composting helps destroy pathogens and seeds).
Great tip! Thanks for sharing 👍🙂
I live in a hot, dry climate, so obviously i have to mulch, and i tend to go thick with it. But i've noticed that fine mulch tends to wick up the water of the bed (this was especially bad with coco coir and mulched straw). So i switched to mulching with straight straw, because it gave me the best results. I think because all the straw stalks lay horizontally, they do not provide a good surface for the water to wick up to.
I collect everything from redwood detritus (they are messy, shed a lot of stuff) to leaves, lawn clippings from my place and the neighbors. Of course loads of wood chips when I can get it. Never bought the stuff other than paying a small fee for chips, always want more but can produce a lot right on my own property.
I just discovered this channel today and it's awesome! There's so much quality information that will undoubtedly improve my veggie gardening.
Solid info mate. Saves so much water
Thanks Jack :)
It’s a bit late but thanks Mark for this video on mulshes and mulshing 😉😄
I have spread so much mulch it has been crazy (mostly pine and cedar). Most surprising part is how fast it breaks down back into the soil. It is a great way to care for the soil quality but note it does require re-application every other year or so.
Appreciable presentation. Thank you