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 TH-cam 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 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
"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 :)
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!
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.
I needed this video about mulch. I've just planted a few fruit trees and vegetables but have not mulch them yet so this video came perfectly timed. 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.
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.
Spot on - the following is from our farm's (RocK Meadow Farm, Union, CT, USA) gardening tips: Mulch mulch mulch! - Plant a row, mulch a row, move on to the next. Don’t be tempted to plant everything, then mulch later. Somehow it doesn’t happen and then you’ll need to weed before mulching. Mulching your plants is the single best thing you can do for both them and yourself. When the temperature is cool mulch will help retain warmth in the soil, while in hot weather it helps protect the plants from overheating. In dry weather it helps retain moisture, either from rain or from watering. The most important thing about mulch is that it keeps down weeds reducing the amount of weeding necessary. For most gardeners weeding is the most time consuming, labor intensive task. Lack of timely weeding and subsequent weed growth is the reason for most garden failures.
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.....
With wood chips you have to be careful as well if you buy it commercially. I got some last year and had so many morning glory vines everywhere growing and chocking out my beloved cucumbers…
Another house that I owned, I'd put grass clipping directly over the plants and had a beyond double harvest. No compost pile, but directly put in. I had the best harvest in a drought than I ever had. My new home, I've been lack due to losing my husband. I'm planning on keeping a video diary on my new gardening endeavors to see if I can still do what I used to. And I'm watching a lot of videos to update my skills, and your channel is a great influence, even if you're not in the USA. Thank you for what your do, and please keep posting!!!!
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
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 had a 1/4 bag of mulch that was forgotten for over a year and i decided to use it. When I opened it , it was mostly millipede/worm castings... one of the best fertilizers I've seen. Now on I'm a mulch-guy. I put mulch on every plant in my garden!
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.
@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
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.
In our pot veggie garden here in Japan, we use rice husk (or shells - the hard part that gets discarded after harvest). The farmers just put it by the road with a sign to come get it. I would much prefer to use something that breaks down a little easier but there are no trees or lawns around here :( Great video!
Broken down mulch is called humus. Humus is the sponge that retains moisture in soil and keeps it light, airy and black. Changing the type of mulch used each season widens the varieties of bacteria in your soil which is very beneficial. Different bacteria add different nutrients to the soil, so a wide variety of bacteria will eventually produce the full spectrum of nutrients for plant health. Mark has beautifully rich black tilth in his beds and general garden from using lots of different types of mulch over the years.
5/24/2020 Doing a pandemic garden bed for our sanity, my husband and I will be filling a bed we hacked together from left over roof replacement materials... (Hurricane Irma ate our roof.) We are putting in good soil today, with some cow manure, and some cypress mulch. We’re not sure yet what we’ll plant, but we are extremely jazzed to have reached this stage in the project! Thanks for your enthusiasm and wisdom, Mark! 💚
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.
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.
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.
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 TH-cam and here is the video ....pooofff ! Magic !
We use spent stable manure, compost, and occasionally with rice hulls. The manure is soaked to get a fertilizer “tea” that we collect and feed to garden as needed. We compost our chicken bedding, stable manure and kitchen waste. Yard trimmings go under the full size orange tree. It’s 5 ft deep right now after spring weed/grass growth. Our soil turns practically to concrete if we don’t mulch. The soil gets better every year. We do add a small amount of organic fertilizer just to insure we get micronutrients and mycorrhizae. We garden year round as we have a short frost period in January and early February that we can still harvest during.
Another good source of mulch is via composted horse manure. We have stables not far away who give the horse manure away and after a few months composting it is fantastic fertiliser/mulch. My tomatoes this year are 8 feet tall and still actively growing !!
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...
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! ❤️
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 worked at a butterfly farm for a while and part of my job was collecting spanish moss out of the trees then shredding it and using it as mulch, idk if you have spanish moss over where you are but it worked really well.
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.
Mark is the man love his preaching technique for garden and growing. According to him you can mulch right up to the stems on tomato plants , many others say no leave a gap which I have done but this season I wont.
Just wanted to say my partner and I love your videos and get a crap tonne of inspiration from you. We are located in Newcastle and being younger Australians we are hoping to own a good plot of land like yours one day. Currently though we have made a garden at my mum's suburban block and your channel has helped me a hell of a lot and keeps us inspired until we can afford our own land. Thank you :)
That's awesome to hear and thank you for supporting my content! I love hearing younger people getting into food gardening. I wish I could have started earlier myself (I would know so much more) but I was traveling heaps for work during my 20's and 30's so I had to postpone my dream of getting a good sized block until the timing was right. Keep working towards your goals and the work/effort/wait makes it much sweeter once you eventually get there. Cheers :)
Two years ago I took a chance and mulched my entire garden with 8inches of woodchips. In 2yrs the top 5cm of my grey dune sand has transformed into rich topsoil. I have earthworms all year round even during 40C (105F) heat waves, and three new species of fungus spreading through the yard. If you have the time, contact your local tree service for cheap/free mulch and stack it high!
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.
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 can just listen to your videos all day.... I start a playlist and go about my housework. something about your accent and how you talk and explain things... it's just soothing lol. also learning lots from your content... very inspiring. Thank you and greetings from Florida!
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!!!
I have been doing the "poor man's method" for almost 20 years...lol....I rarely throw garden waste away, only if they are too big as I don't have a chipper...Thanks Mark..love your work
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.
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
I love gardening but absolutely hate watering lol. So I mulch the snot out of my garden beds and compost directly on them too and BAM! I don't ever have to water except during periods of extreme drought. By the way I love your channel!!!!
I live in the St Petersburg area of Florida USA. From what you’ve said about your weather, it’s just like ours. I have learned so much from you and you have become my go to, how to, do all things gardening. Thank you for your info, good cheer and.....I love your politics!
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!
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).
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 ☺️
This is the most comprehensive mulching video I've seen on YT - thanks for taking the time to make it! I should have subscribed earlier, but I surely did today!
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 love your tall raised beds. Ours is made of landscape timbers which are now 10 yrs old. They are rotting now and I want to replace mine with cinder blocks. But, that is a lot of work. Your garden looks great. Thanks for sharing. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!!!
Been mulching for the last couple of years and would never go back. It has so many benefits and if you're like me and grow a lot in pots it helps even more as the soil typically dries out a lot faster without mulch. Also you get far reduced splashing around the plant base when watering.
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.
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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!?
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.
TH-cam 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 TH-cam 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 ✨
Appreciated this video very mulch!
Mulches gracious!
Thank you very mulch
This is Mark's passion and he is always enthusiastic, entertaining, and informative. 🤗
Much admiration for this hard-working mate ! 💓
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
"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 just went out and mulched!
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 :)
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.
I needed this video about mulch.
I've just planted a few fruit trees and vegetables but have not mulch them yet so this video came perfectly timed.
Thank you!
Go Terrie!!
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.
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.
God bless you Mark. You are an inspiration for all of us! 😍
FACTS !!!!
Spot on - the following is from our farm's (RocK Meadow Farm, Union, CT, USA) gardening tips:
Mulch mulch mulch! - Plant a row, mulch a row, move on to the next. Don’t be
tempted to plant everything, then mulch later. Somehow it doesn’t happen and then you’ll need to weed before mulching. Mulching your plants is the single best thing you can do for both them and yourself. When the temperature is cool mulch will help retain warmth in the soil, while in hot weather it helps protect the plants from overheating. In dry weather it helps retain moisture, either from rain or from watering. The most important thing about mulch is that it keeps down weeds reducing the amount of weeding necessary. For most gardeners weeding is the most time consuming, labor intensive task. Lack of timely weeding and subsequent weed growth is the reason for most garden failures.
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.
I think you just talked me into starting a garden, haven't had one in years. Thanks for the motivation 🍺
This must be how a miner feels when he discovers gold. Your presentation is perfect. Your info priceless. Muchos gracias from San Diego, CA
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.....
With wood chips you have to be careful as well if you buy it commercially. I got some last year and had so many morning glory vines everywhere growing and chocking out my beloved cucumbers…
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.
Sometimes I think a grave yard can make a good garden, thumbs up to this man!!!
Mulch works great on strawberries too, retains the water very good! keeps the fruit from rotting aswell.
Gardening Australia should hire you. Better segments than most of what they show these days.
Another house that I owned, I'd put grass clipping directly over the plants and had a beyond double harvest. No compost pile, but directly put in. I had the best harvest in a drought than I ever had. My new home, I've been lack due to losing my husband. I'm planning on keeping a video diary on my new gardening endeavors to see if I can still do what I used to. And I'm watching a lot of videos to update my skills, and your channel is a great influence, even if you're not in the USA. Thank you for what your do, and please keep posting!!!!
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
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 had a 1/4 bag of mulch that was forgotten for over a year and i decided to use it. When I opened it , it was mostly millipede/worm castings... one of the best fertilizers I've seen. Now on I'm a mulch-guy. I put mulch on every plant in my garden!
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.
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
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.
In our pot veggie garden here in Japan, we use rice husk (or shells - the hard part that gets discarded after harvest). The farmers just put it by the road with a sign to come get it.
I would much prefer to use something that breaks down a little easier but there are no trees or lawns around here :(
Great video!
Have u used seaweed?
An excellent example of mulch! At least the farmers are nice enough to offer it for collection. That's great. Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme Mark have u ever used seaweed and do u know know how to apply it please! Have a great day! From near Tamworth!
I wish TH-cam 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.
Thanks heaps for sharing. I learn a lot from you. Have a good one.
Broken down mulch is called humus.
Humus is the sponge that retains moisture in soil and keeps it light, airy and black.
Changing the type of mulch used each season widens the varieties of bacteria in your soil which is very beneficial.
Different bacteria add different nutrients to the soil, so a wide variety of bacteria will eventually produce the full spectrum of nutrients for plant health.
Mark has beautifully rich black tilth in his beds and general garden from using lots of different types of mulch over the years.
5/24/2020 Doing a pandemic garden bed for our sanity, my husband and I will be filling a bed we hacked together from left over roof replacement materials... (Hurricane Irma ate our roof.) We are putting in good soil today, with some cow manure, and some cypress mulch. We’re not sure yet what we’ll plant, but we are extremely jazzed to have reached this stage in the project! Thanks for your enthusiasm and wisdom, Mark! 💚
So happy to be in the Self-Sufficient Me university of gardening. Thank You
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.
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.
In the Philippines we used rice stalk or rice hull to mulch the plants, it helps
to retain moisture in the soil especially during summer.👍👍🌱🌱🇵🇭🇵🇭
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.
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 TH-cam and here is the video ....pooofff ! Magic !
We use spent stable manure, compost, and occasionally with rice hulls. The manure is soaked to get a fertilizer “tea” that we collect and feed to garden as needed. We compost our chicken bedding, stable manure and kitchen waste. Yard trimmings go under the full size orange tree. It’s 5 ft deep right now after spring weed/grass growth. Our soil turns practically to concrete if we don’t mulch. The soil gets better every year. We do add a small amount of organic fertilizer just to insure we get micronutrients and mycorrhizae. We garden year round as we have a short frost period in January and early February that we can still harvest during.
Fantastic garden preparation and nutrient making! Thanks for sharing :)
Another good source of mulch is via composted horse manure. We have stables not far away who give the horse manure away and after a few months composting it is fantastic fertiliser/mulch. My tomatoes this year are 8 feet tall and still actively growing !!
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...
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
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 worked at a butterfly farm for a while and part of my job was collecting spanish moss out of the trees then shredding it and using it as mulch, idk if you have spanish moss over where you are but it worked really well.
Your show is like a set of encyclopedias for gardening, thanks!
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.
Mark is the man love his preaching technique for garden and growing. According to him you can mulch right up to the stems on tomato plants , many others say no leave a gap which I have done but this season I wont.
I thought I had watched all of your videos but I just found this one! What an awesome find!
Just wanted to say my partner and I love your videos and get a crap tonne of inspiration from you. We are located in Newcastle and being younger Australians we are hoping to own a good plot of land like yours one day. Currently though we have made a garden at my mum's suburban block and your channel has helped me a hell of a lot and keeps us inspired until we can afford our own land.
Thank you :)
That's awesome to hear and thank you for supporting my content! I love hearing younger people getting into food gardening. I wish I could have started earlier myself (I would know so much more) but I was traveling heaps for work during my 20's and 30's so I had to postpone my dream of getting a good sized block until the timing was right. Keep working towards your goals and the work/effort/wait makes it much sweeter once you eventually get there. Cheers :)
Two years ago I took a chance and mulched my entire garden with 8inches of woodchips. In 2yrs the top 5cm of my grey dune sand has transformed into rich topsoil. I have earthworms all year round even during 40C (105F) heat waves, and three new species of fungus spreading through the yard. If you have the time, contact your local tree service for cheap/free mulch and stack it high!
Even from the start I knew I was watching something and important! Cheers mate!
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.
You make me want to move to Australia and try to convince you to let me live there and help. You are such an awesome Farmer and Entertainer.
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!!!!
Mulching is the best, I have been mulching for 60 years... mostly grass clippings and straw. Nice video...
I can just listen to your videos all day.... I start a playlist and go about my housework. something about your accent and how you talk and explain things... it's just soothing lol. also learning lots from your content... very inspiring. Thank you and greetings from Florida!
Love that lawnmower mulch trick - I'm gonna get into it....
Like the nod to Ferris Bueller at the end 😊
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!!!
I have been doing the "poor man's method" for almost 20 years...lol....I rarely throw garden waste away, only if they are too big as I don't have a chipper...Thanks Mark..love your work
LOL - same here! Thanks Marco! 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.
I'm beginning to think "Mulsh" was the proper pronunciation this whole time lol it flows off the tounge easier really. Fantastic channel 👏 😁
I am so glad I found your channel. I may live in the states, but a lot of the things you show has helped me a lot.
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! :)
3:37 this right here is why i keep watching these videos
U are the Steve Erwin of gardening so entertaning!! Thanks again
I'm from the United states and I'm adopting your mulch pronunciation! Mulsh mulsh mulsh mulsh....
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
I just mulched my vegetable garden 4 days ago. Now the soil stays cool and moist, best decision I ever made 😊❤️
I love gardening but absolutely hate watering lol. So I mulch the snot out of my garden beds and compost directly on them too and BAM! I don't ever have to water except during periods of extreme drought. By the way I love your channel!!!!
I live in the St Petersburg area of Florida USA. From what you’ve said about your weather, it’s just like ours.
I have learned so much from you and you have become my go to, how to, do all things gardening. Thank you for your info, good cheer and.....I love your politics!
Thanks
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!
You are da man Mark. I just love watching your videos, so educational.
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 👍🙂
Thank you so much for these videos pal! You're an inspiration!
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 ☺️
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 :)
This is the most comprehensive mulching video I've seen on YT - thanks for taking the time to make it! I should have subscribed earlier, but I surely did today!
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 love your tall raised beds. Ours is made of landscape timbers which are now 10 yrs old. They are rotting now and I want to replace mine with cinder blocks. But, that is a lot of work. Your garden looks great. Thanks for sharing. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!!!
Great video on Mulsh.
Ooh. Its may 11th...and this video is 2 years old. So when he said its the last day of world mulch week may 5 to may 11...i got chills
Been mulching for the last couple of years and would never go back. It has so many benefits and if you're like me and grow a lot in pots it helps even more as the soil typically dries out a lot faster without mulch. Also you get far reduced splashing around the plant base when watering.
I came for his accent. I stayed for his knowledge.
This is the best video I've seen on mulshing on TH-cam 😏. Good job sir.
What a legend. Love this guy
Pine straw is great mulch, especially over winter.
Love the videos... Knuckle head next door?! you mean gentlemen next door!!! more befitting of a gentleman like yourself i do believe!
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.