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Maintain Mulch for Continuous Soil Improvement

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DIY Garden Ideas: STOP WEEDS!! Easy ideas..simple tools..organic soil building fun!

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To achieve a successful and weed-free garden over time, consistent effort in mulching is key. After the current season, allow the applied mulch to break down for a couple of days (if integrated into the soil) and then refill it with new mulch if needed. At the end of the growing season, instead of removing old mulch, it should be tilled into the soil. This process integrates the decomposed organic material into the earth, adding valuable biomass and continuously enhancing soil structure and fertility over the years, leading to an 'explosion' of plant growth.

Goal: Consistently apply a thin layer of mulch, and at the end of the season, till the old mulch into the soil to continuously add biomass and improve soil structure.

Tools and materials

  • Garden Rake
  • Hoe
  • Tiller
  • Wood Chips (Mulch)

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So the simple way to make your garden look like this versus a big patch of weeds is this right here and that right there. Elbow grease, you just got to get out, you got to get out and dedicate yourself and do a little bit of work. Now I'm sure you guys probably don't have a garden as big as this. So if you've got a smaller spot, you have even less of an excuse to have a big weedy garden. So go over the lows, go over to Home Depot, buy a couple bags of double ground mulch and get out there in your garden. Weed it, let the weeds die for a couple days and then get back in there and refill it with a little bit of mulch. You don't need to put it in thick and then next year you need to till that mulch in and let it rot and add biomass to the soil. And over the years your garden will explode with awesomeness. Now I'm going to get busy out here raking but I'm going to show you one more thing. It's how we mulch our squash plants, okay? So let's go over to the squash plants.

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