Mulch

Mulching is an extremely important part of your garden. Like everything else in good organic practices, we want to mimic nature.

When you mulch an area, you are protecting it from sun damage to your soil's microbiome, regulating temperature, stopping weeds, and keeping moisture within the soil. This happens naturally underneath the canopy of trees and other bushes, where their leaves and branches decompose to provide nutrients back to their own system and the plants around them - while providing an environment suitable for microbes.

If you don't mulch, you will lose a large amount of nutrition in the soil to the elements, and you'll also waste water.

There are many types, and you should always use natural materials that will decompose over time and add life to your soil, rather than stuff such as rubber mulch, which won't break down.

Some mulches can be found for free around your yard!

Hot tip: ask for rice straw, not any hay, for quick application. Hay is more $, drops seeds, needs time to age.