The Low Down Dirt On Mulch
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- After stewing over this for around 10 years, Mike Evans will finally let off some steam and attempt to make some sense out of southern California’s “Mulch Madness” in his presentation “The Low Down Dirt on Mulch.” Watch Mike discuss what works and what doesn’t in regards to putting stuff on the surface of your soil in your native garden. “I can’t stay silent on this issue any longer,” said Evans. “Too many gardens have died. Don’t let yours become another statistic.”
Your spirit reminds me of grandfather. He was organic and had my hands in the dirt when I three.
Good info
Great treatise Mike ! Really right on- with explaining some of the multitude of complexities of what we are throwing around as "mulch". Bravo !!
Glad you enjoyed it, Bruce! Thank you for watching.
Thank you, I learned so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful advice, thank you. I put in gorilla hair shredded redwood mulch two years ago, and it formed the "floating mat" you describe.
Nice video!
Thank you, Rama! Glad you enjoyed it.
I like straw. My food looks fantastic.
Thank you so much! But I would never be able to produce enough natural leaf letter (etc) from my garden so can’t really make my own. Any chance you can recommend particular suppliers in the horticultural industry?
It’s more of a time thing than having a lot of leaf litter at once. You put down the correct mulch first for the weed suppression, water conservation, etc, and then as the tree grows and drops leaves over time it turns the soil below into a nice duffy material. For an oak it’s pretty fast because they drop all their leaves, but manzanitas will take longer being evergreen
I stopped at 00:07. Gotta go now. I'll finish it later. My favorite is LIVING "mulch," aka the cryptogamic soil crust community of living (usually non-vascular) native/indigenous plants and their associated organisms. Ooo, ooo, ooo, what a little bit of surface compaction can doo-ooo-ooo! Non-combustible, beautiful, weed-proof, erosion- (but not disturbance-) proof, part of the nutrient cycle, interesting, cheap (zero) and easy. 😀
Excellent speech, Mike...you didn’t mention that bagged or bulk artificially colored mulch hides all sorts of goodies like formaldehyde, glues, weird wood byproducts, and other crud now dyed a homogenous brown...or god-forbid, black. As you say...the goal is to grow a healthy garden, not dispose of waste products in home gardens. Fun video to watch!