Improving General Soil Health
Why: Yet another great reason to use mulch around your garden is to create healthier soil. By using natural wood or other kinds of organic mulch material, it will break down over time helping to make nutrient-rich particles for plants to take up and use.
How: The breakdown happens even faster when the organic material is wet and there is heat. The material and particles will become part of a new soil profile. They will also help create a new soil profile in your garden to improve water infiltration and drainage, which also helps to promote healthier plants.
General Tips:
- Use a variety of mulch over different years to really create great healthy soil below each year’s mulch layer.
- Arborist and landscape mulch, leaves, compost, and needles are good examples of soil improving mulches to use around your landscape and garden plants.
Use a variety of mulches over different years to really create great healthy soil below each year’s mulch layer.