Mulch for Vegetable Gardens
Q: We keep a large vegetable garden but we have little time for weeding. What would be a good mulch?
A: Pine straw makes a fine mulch; it does not acidify the soil. You could used shredded leaves if you keep the mulch two inches away from plant stems. Or you could use a thin layer of free wood chips. As long as the chips are not mixed with underlying soil, they do not rob nitrogen from your plants.
-
Advertisement
-
Follow Walter
-
Advertisement
-
-
October calendar
Pansy planting season has begun, get a six pack and start planting!
Get The Checklist
-
-
-
name that plant
Post your puzzlers and help others with theirs.
Start Here
-
-
Trending Posts
-
1
Planting Where an Opossum has Died
-
2
Aerator Shoes
-
3
Wheel Bug – Identification
-
4
Lawn – Choosing a Mower
-
5
Clothes Moths – Identifying
-
1
Bulbs – When to Plant in Fall
-
2
Loropetalum – Bacterial Stem Gall
-
3
Cannas – Transplanting
-
4
Bladderpod – Identification
-
5
Grass – Mixing Fescue and Rye
-
-
Walter’s Bookshelf
Browse and purchase gardening books by Walter Reeves, plus select titles by other authors.
View books -
Popular topics
Soil Spring Summer Seed Winter Fall Flowers Weed Fertilizer Disease Shade Temperature Pots Oak Pine Pruning Mulch Watering Container Maple Compost Birds Herbicide Tomatoes Azalea Moisture Poison Pears Hydrangea Glyphosate Caterpillar Pests Cherry Roundup Irrigation Pesticide Pre-Emergent Stone Dogwood Peach Spider Pine Straw Greenhouse Magnolia Squash Squirrels Travel Beans Lemon Japanese Maple