WALNUT LEAVES AS MULCH AND SHELTER FOR PLANTS I was prompted to write this article by chance. Once I talked with a neighbor about mulching, and found out to my surprise that some are afraid to use walnut leaves as mulch: they say, nothing will grow. I want to dispel this ridiculous myth. Three walnuts grow on my plot, every year ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Can I cover plants with walnut leaves and use them as mulch?HOW AND WHAT TO MULCH CORRECTLY I read the article by A.P. Evdashkina "Epic with oats and green manure" and wanted to share his experience. Many summer residents, like Alexandra Petrovna, use mustard as a green manure, sowing their plots with it after harvesting vegetables and leaving everything until spring. But let me remind you why we grow green manure: this is the food of earthworms that process ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Mistakes when mulching - the opinions of summer residents about what is BETTER to mulch the soilSTRAWBERRY UNDER HAY - CARE AND WINTER First of all, I am proud of my strawberries. I have two varieties: Gigantella and Baba Lyuba. "What is this new product?" - you ask. I answer. Of course, to that wonderful woman named Lyuba, who shared the seedlings with me. And this strawberry is so beautiful (it bears fruit without a break all summer, and even ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Growing strawberries under hay - my reviewsTHE MULCH AND THE PEST WINTERING IN IT Summer residents complain: yellowish or dirty gray worms grow in the mulch in the tree trunk circles of fruit trees. Therefore, you have to immediately destroy the entire substrate with its "residents". But are such drastic measures always justified? I propose to figure out who exactly likes to hide in the mulch, how dangerous these insects are for the garden. I'll tell you about those inhabitants who ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... What garden pests winter in mulchTHE MULCH AS A FUR COAT Supporters of organic farming use mulch very actively. But is it necessary or not to clean it up for the winter? If during the warm season and early autumn the mulch smoothed out the temperature drops in the soil, creating optimal conditions for the soil microbiota, then in the spring the organic layer lying on the ground will slow down the thawing and warming of the soil. I checked myself: under ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... To remove mulch for the winter or not?