Mulching Flower Beds - How and Why
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Looking for the benefits of mulching your garden or how to mulch? Want to know what thickness of mulching you should apply? Mulching your garden can seem pointless at times, but in this video I explain why mulching is important and also provide tips on how to mulch to get the best results.
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Thanks for the quality gardening advice. Keep up the good work!
Wow Grant, thank you for the encouragement! I’m glad you found the video helpful.
Thank you for sharing these tips! This was all the information I was needing in one short sweet video👌👍
Excellent! I’m soooo happy this was helpful! 👍🏼
Thank you so much! My husband and I have our own little house, and the old garden bed is very overgrown and needing of some tlc. Neither of us know anything about landscaping 😅 but this helps us get started
Excellent! I’m so happy this was helpful. I hope you enjoy gardening and landscaping. 👍🏼👍🏼
Awesom info. Concise and relevant content. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your support and for watching! Have an awesome day! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you for such easy and clear tips! I am mulching today!
EXCELLENT!!!! I’m so happy this was helpful. Have fun!! 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you! Very helpful!
Awesome! I’m so happy this helped!
hey this is LaToya Childs Alanna mom it was really nice meeting you today
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Thanks
And a nice bit of humor at the end 😅
Thank you so much!!
Help, we just put down mulch and now have tons of flies that stay on the mulch. I have no idea how to get rid of. We used Bug bgone for mosquitoes that worked but not flies. Would appreciate any suggestions
I have never had that problem. Hmmmm… I assume watering does nothing. You could get a fly trap. We do this to keep flies away from our chickens.
And a question. Do you need to take some of the old mulch top surface before starting (given you removed all weeds)?
Gardenia, I’m my experience, you don’t need to remove a layer. I’ve seen some people make that recommendation, but I’ve never done it and we’ve had great success with our flower beds. I hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
Thanks very mulch!
HA! I see what you did there… you can’t beat a good mulch pun! That’s mulch appreciated 🫤🤣
So much for that, what about termites 🥳
what is that grass you’re yanking out at 1:38 ? I had it appear all over my flower beds last year. I thought it was a plant or ornamental grass that was in one of my various “flower mix” seeds I bought but it just turned into an ugly weed.
It is skinny, darker green with a darker line going straight down the middle. And for me it was super easy to pull up while still in that phase. All of my googling i couldn’t figure out what it is.
I’m not sure of the exact name, but it’s basically a vine grass. If you look deeper under the mulch, you’ll see a vine connecting it to the next growth.
What about termites and black water bugs??
Not sure what you mean… are you asking if the mulch attracts them?
What is the best way to kill weeds and grass? I yank mines out every other week but they keep on growing back out.
The bad news is that there is no perfect way to do this. Unless, you’re willing to pour a ton of chemical into the ground, which will also kill all of your plants. Lol! I have had some success with gardening fabric, but depending on the weed, they can also grow under the fabric, and will eventually find a hole and work their way through. Thistle is a good example of this.
The best method, in my opinion, is to mulch your garden early in the year and then maintain your weed picking. I hope this helps!
Hey, little criticism here,
I just finished washing your garden boarder video and went to this video to see how to create that natural mulch bed. Unfortunately, the information wasn’t as helpful. I want to see if I had to full the trench, or fill halfway but creating a curve of much from the Trench to the first plant. I really wished you put a transition of what to do.
Overall, the video was very informative and has helped a lot of questions that I have. Thank you
Suzanne THANK YOU for taking the time to share this feedback! I greatly appreciate it. As I strive to improve, comments like this are super helpful. I happy you found the video helpful and am grateful for you.
Have a great day!!
@@ReluctantDIYers it’s still a very informative and amazing video. I feel like a lot of channels forget to add additional information about mulch because without this video, I wouldn’t know what to do. Thank you and keep up the good work
@@suzanne5685 Awesome, thanks for the encouragement!