Using Mulch in Your Garden

g'day welcome to I cultivate my name's Steve and today we're going to be looking at the importance of mulch in the garden the use of mulch in a garden is critical to ensuring that you have healthy plant growth but there are a number of reasons why you would use mulches reasons include such things as ensuring that you are conserving moisture in the soil now if you live in a hot area that is something which you really need to consider the application of a mulch across the ground around your plants will help ensure that you maintain the soil moisture the second reason why mulch is necessary is because it helps to minimize weed growth so if you don't want to be going around and plucking weeds out all the time mulch is something that can help that another reason for using mulch is that as it decomposes and breaks down it's actually adding nutrients into the soil and replenishing some of those nutrients that are used by the plants themselves and the last reason why I use mulch is because it helps to control the soil temperature prevents it from getting too hot now if you live in a cold area where you are subjected to frosts mulch can even help to protect small seedlings and prevent damage to those seedlings under Frosty conditions as well now there are many different types of mulches that you can use and they can include things like grass clippings but make sure if you use grass clippings you allow them to dry through to my particular favorite which is sugar cane mulch now if you live in an area where you can't get sugarcane mulch you may find that you can get other types of mulches like for example loosen but really any type of organic mulch that is fibrous or grassy like in nature will do now just focus on a couple of other reasons why I think it is important to use mulch and in this particular instance what I have is a garden bed which has been in production for a while and it's now going to lay fellow for a while what I'm going to do is cover it with a layer of mulch to ensure that firstly it retains moisture secondly does not have excessive weed growth happening while it is lying fellow and thirdly of course as that mulch rots down it will add nutrients to this soil so I'm going to spread this over I'm going to make sure there's at least a three or four inch layer of mulch over this entire bed the other use of bolts that I'd like to talk about is the use of mulch in pots now the main reason why you would use mulching pots is to do with water retention and in order to achieve this you can see I've got here a layer of sugarcane mulch also however I have seen many people will actually use a different type of mulch in a pot that is more decorative might even be stones for example so to summarize remember mulching is critical for a healthy garden and the reason why you would mulch is for a range of purposes they include controlling the temperature of the soil keeping it either not too hot or too cold in a frosty area secondly ensuring that moisture is conserved thirdly adding nutrients back to the soil and fourthly of course keeping the weed growth under control so ensure that you mulch your garden to get healthy plant growth now I hope you've enjoyed this video can I please ask you to go down to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this Channel and go to our website icultivate.net and become a member of the community thanks for watching foreign