Easy & Free Mulch Options for Amazing Garden Soil

Mulch is important for protecting soil and one of the best ways to improve garden production - when you choose the right materials. Joe Lamp'l explains money-saving mulch options and demonstrates how to use them. Next - check out Joe's Soil Building playlist: • Soil Building
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[@rosemarymurray8256]

I just love this part of the show where joe says smoke the grass lol makes me laugh every time ! 😄

[@everettmcdonald2088]

You brought back a great memory. In 1975 my father was a foreman in a city cemetery. They were removing thatch from some lawns and dumping the thatch in the cemetery dump. One of his workers, a Portuguese immigrant was indignant and holding up a handful said, “This crazy Mr Bill. This is blood to the soil.” Every year after that, each spring I received truck loads of thatch that I would spread between the rows of my vegetable garden. What a great garden. I still mulch my gardens with grass clippings and shredded leaves. Excellent video.

[@homegardenandhomestead9811]

Free mulch? Sign us up! We didn't know about Chipdrop for getting free wood chips. What a great idea. Thanks for the tip, Joe. And thanks for the reminder that autumn leaves should never be thrown away. They are just waiting to be "recycled" back into the garden.

[@RunningRlust96]

Home Garden and Homestead been waiting awhile chip drop

[@angusmacduff3471]

I used to get the composted leaves and clippings from the town and it was great. One year I covered two of my forty foot by four foot beds - one asparagus and one in raspberries. The next year nothing came up in either bed. That batch must have had a lot of weed killer or pre-emergent mixed into it. After that I only used what I made myself - I usually get a couple of hundred pounds of worm castings from my worms and that helps a lot.

[@pamelagreberichardson7059]

And thank you for an excellent explanation of my two favorite sources for mulch (leaves and wood chips). I am lucky enough to have a local arborist who will give me chips and I have woods on two sides of my property that yield oceanic amounts of leaves. Grass clippings I prefer to leave on the lawn as fertilizer and I cut it high (3') so clippings are never a problem. The lawn always looks lush and green so if it's happy, so am I. Again, if I may impose, I am very eager to know about your

[@DiegoVargas-tm4sv]

can you guys show us a garden tour ? & also what would be top plants to harvest and herbs to grow? thxs

[@wp8786]

Chipdrop works! I haev used them six times. Great sources.

[@bartsexton1652]

I have a question about grass clippings. My yard has weeds with the grass , so if I take the clippings and add the clippings to my garden fresh won’t those seeds grow in my garden

[@pamelagreberichardson7059]

Please tell us where you got your mulch fork--it's exactly what I'm looking for. Who is the manufacturer? Thank you in advance.

[@khantikachongsathien6039]

When you put the dried grass on the soil ie the soil on the pot will that look green and grass like on the soil.

[@gardnerhappy2114]

Hi Joe. How do you keep squirrels out of your garden. They are eating everything including my green tomatoes.

[@babochon]

I have been saving leaves and mulches and then found out so many "slugs" there. I am sure it is the part of the eco system, but it makes me wonder if I should use wait till they are all broken down. Then how long?

[@AlejandroJaime213]

BABO Roof slugs eat leaves.will destroy your garden . Add worms instead (to leaves Nd mulch )

[@pamelagreberichardson7059]

(Ooops) . . . mulch fork. Thanks again.

[@Testing329]

Viva Christo Rey

[@wokest118]

We all know you made this video just so you can say smoking some grass 😆