Mulch Your Way to A More Successful Garden

Reader Contribution by Tracy Lynn
Published on June 7, 2019
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As spring turns into summer, more and more folks are working hard to get their gardens planted. Tilling up plots and planting seeds, they hope their gardens will overflow with tomatoes, melons, and squash.

Gardening is one of those summer pastimes that many of us enjoy, but if we are not careful, can quickly turn into frustration and overwhelm. Frustration comes in the form of wilting and weak plants and overwhelm from a garden with more weeds than tomatoes. To help combat both of these outcomes, I like to take a few extra steps while planting my garden to keep roots from drying out and those pesky weeds from taking over.

Mulching is nothing new to most folks. Where we live, piles of bark mulch can be seen in most, if not all, suburban yards. When you tweak things just a bit and take that mulch to your vegetable garden—that’s where the magic really happens.

We are, in a sense, looking for the same outcome from mulch as ornamental gardeners. We want to lock moisture in and keep weeds out. However, since we are dealing with food, we need to be a bit careful when choosing what to mulch with.

Let’s start with the basics.

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