Top 3 Mistakes Made When Mulching Trees

Don't make these big 3 mistakes when you are mulching your trees.
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[@promethea79]

Friends dont let friends do mulch volcanoes on their trees...🙅🏿‍♀️

[@wdashwor]

I've seen professional companies even doing this. :-(

[@debert1964]

Yeah I never understood that.

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

Young trees are permanently affected the worst. Just two or more inches of mulch/soil and three years time screws tree severely. How bad is this mulching fad for us arborist, we don't climb trees we can't see the rootflares on. Not because it's hiding damage, because it's most certainly causing damage we can't see. But doesn't it figure how everybody boasts that trees make oxygen for us to breath. Yet very few know that trees need oxygen too. So when folks are busy trying to save the environment, nobody even notices how surrounded by strangled trees! I mean thank God trees can't talk, no one would be able to hear above their wheezing.

[@jetah50]

@@CONCERTMANchicago my local univ put 2-4" of mulch under live oaks...

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

And that's a learning institution, hope they don't teach science! Now landscapers found even quicker way of killing trees, by cutting sharp edge around ring mound and tossing soil inward toward trunk. And people thought wood chips suffocated roots, adding soil exponentially worse. _You folks down south so lucky to have those octopus limbed live oaks, Enjoy!_

[@PE-du5qb]

1 don’t mulch too close to the tree trunk 2 don’t mulch too high 3 don’t use chemically died mulch There I just saved you 8 minutes of your life.

[@ChantYip]

Thank you for your conclusions.

[@joepah51]

chemically dyed mulch should be avoided as well.

[@mightymouse1111]

@@joepah51 yes and never mulch too close to the trunk

[@Robmanian]

@@mightymouse1111 Don't forget to not mulch too high

[@mightymouse1111]

@@Robmanian I think we just saved someone 16 minutes of their life!

[@sylviahilxebrant7141]

Thanks for the video. Was feeling the need to add another layer of mulch to my peach tree but according to you it's doing fine. I did know not to go too high but not to keep it pushed back from the trunk. Thank you.

[@RoyalTea70]

Luke thank you so much your Video was Exactly what we needed. Tio late we purchased the red mulch from our Local Hardware Store. But I did learn something. Not too close to the base of the 🌳. I tried to tell my husband. Now I will just share it. Thanks.

[@TamanInspirasi]

thank you for your tips... I’ve really learned a lot!

[@dierom772]

Very good video, detailed and to the point. I will implement right now. Thank you

[@louieortega3378]

Thanks very much for your dedication and support ! I have young pomegranate tree , guava, tangerine tree and mulch just as you said... trees looking happy !😎👍

[@artichokez3270]

mulching trees, a simple yet crucial topic to discuss. nice vid!

[@roncooke3964]

Thanks Luke!! GREAT advice to us you tube people learning gardening I will certainly use you advice in the future !! Kind regards Ron!! Tasmania Australia 👍🤠

[@GeorgeAlexander1000]

This is great information that I'll definitely use and pass on. Thank you brother for sharing.

[@Honey_bee098]

Thank you so much! I just finished mulching my neighborhood trees :)

[@hockeyfan7b]

Ive been using free woodchips the past 2 years with mycorrhizae and its amazing! Here in zone 8b they break down so fast i often mulch with well over 6 inches and its down to 2 in no time.

[@TheRealLeahBibi]

Awesome! I swear I was actually thinking to myself this morning about mulching the base of my trees with a beautiful red mulch! I was thinking about how pretty it would be. LOL! Thanks so much.

[@beckysheetz4343]

Wow, these are really really good tips. I have so much to learn!

[@FairyFrequency]

Very nice. We just planted a Wisconsin Willow in a giant container. Wishing you a lovely day x) 🦋

[@brandon3872]

Around my trees I like to use natural wood chips, and in my raised bed and flower beds I like to use straw as much, I find them both very effective. 😊

[@jumpoffa5011]

Good tip, thank-you.

[@jaytebow15]

Thanks for all the info. Very helpful. I'd like to take a picture of the mulch I bought for u to see if it's not what I should be using.

[@Dude_Its_Pistachio]

I just planted 2 trees so it's good I found this channel !

[@lisabooker6405]

Great information. Thanks Luke! Shared to FB! 😊

[@brianlamberth3490]

Great video! I had a conversation with my mom earlier today about how colored mulches are filled with chemicals. How funny is that...Thanks for all your videos! They are very informative and i enjoy the heck out of them! Ive seen around 40. Hey i would love to see a video of the type of soil that you use in your raised beds. I live in Georgia; I dont know if that makes a difference or not, for the type of soil that should be used. Anyways, take care and GROW BIG OR GO HOME!!!

[@PinkChucky15]

This is great info that I’ll definitely keep in mind for whenever I have my own garden and trees :-D

[@MIgardener]

Anything in the near future? Let us know, we will help out when that time comes. :)

[@PinkChucky15]

MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living Thank you! That’s so awesome of you guys ❤️. Unfortunately, nothing really in the horizon yet but I’m hoping, we’ll see :-D

[@jetterrazas3743]

Great advice, this video will help me with my 1st tree , thanks Luke

[@rockwellurbangardener5435]

Hi I enjoy your videos and all of the information you provided it helps me a lot. I watch your how to videos but I don't see one on Eggplant. There are several types which is better for them in the ground or containers. Have a Great Day!!

[@SimpleCookingGardening]

“Immune system of your tree” very good 👍. Thanks for Important tips.

[@munchou]

Old but gold, thank you! Kudos to the squirrel in the background. I hope it got its royalties.

[@lyzabethlopez]

very helpful! I learned a lot

[@truefuschniken]

Love your channel and the info- thanks!! :)

[@NonieK2267]

Except in Phoenix at 115 degrees and up in summer more mulch helps save our fruit trees. Of course loosely mulch and we have to clean out every spring and start over. I do learn from you even though you are in a different zone. We are 9B

[@bethanyhutchinson6714]

This was so timely! Thank you for going over this-I need to check my trees and make sure the mulch is far enough away!

[@JohnDoe_88]

Great video, I found that first putting down a layer of leaves before your wood chips to mulch is a good way to get the worms to come up to eat the mulch layer and add a good start of beneficial life and worm castings to your planting hole. I'm curious if you had any died back of your fig or pomegranate?

[@MIgardener]

I think we lost our fig and pomegranate due to a record cold winter.

[@JohnDoe_88]

MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living Aww bummer! I hear alot of cold hardy fig's roots will over winter and send out new shoots if they're mulched well at the base so could try mulching thicker (or try planting the Fig next to your heated house which would radiate out more heat than your unheated shed, mine is close to my Brick House which the bricks are good at pulling in heat and radiating it out). I planted five cold hardy figs this spring and mulched thick and I live near you, and I'm planning to take cuttings of all of them in the fall so by the next spring if any have died I still will have rooted cuttings that I can grow in pots or try overwintering again in the ground.... I'm growing a pomegranate as well along my brick house, I've seen these cool designed greenhouses that would go back behind the pomegranate connecting to the wall that can be pulled down and over your pomegranate for protection which might be an option to try... Good luck and keep pushing the limits of what can be grown!

[@Rob-gu4kd]

Awesome tip with the dyed mulch. Big help.

[@stevejenkins6924]

Thanks for the tip you nailed my problem.

[@soonzach4017]

Thank you. I am a new subscriber.

[@parks51998]

Great tips, thanks Luke

[@stephanieduncan6778]

Thank you for these great tips!!

[@subedats]

I love these tips great info for your climate! But in our arizona desert we have to mulch our trees at LEAST 6 inches otherwise the soil will dry out in a day during the summer. Pull the mulch away from the truck! Yes! Always even in the desert! My trees go from about 3 inches at the trunk to about a foot at the drip line. Great video!

[@ABabe-zh5vh]

Yes I'm in MI and 52 for a high is cold for me too. Crazy this weather. I get my mulch free from people who grind down trees. Craigslist usually has listings for free mulch from trees they ground. Also cities have it too.

[@ericaguerra8448]

Thank you for this valuable video.

[@TrainAllSports]

Your videos are helpful. Thank You

[@beowolf19751]

Excellent informative video!

[@moringausa]

Awesome! Thank you Luke

[@natejansen892]

great video dude. Cedar Mulch is also antifungal and can inhibit mycorrhizal friendship in a garden space.

[@reuniteireland]

appreciate this. The house we just moved into has everything way overmulched especially the trees. The problem is that one tree has so much mulch probably from the start that the root system is in the mulch up towards the top. I am concerned that if I dig out the mulch it will look ridiculous with roots in the air.

[@momimperfect9700]

Very helpful! Thank-you! I liked your video!

[@christophermascelli1692]

Great video! Thanks!

[@Sheenasalesthriftytreasures]

Great information thank you

[@911review]

best way to mulch 1 inch of leaves. 1 layer of cardboard 2 inches of pine bark mulch. the cardboard will help keep moisture in and weeds down and the leaves will feed the soil. leaves and cardboard will feed worms and break down in a year or 2. i have used pine cones on top the mulch also they do not hold water, or hurt the tree. but do shade the mulch underneath so it stays longer.

[@urbanfarmermelbourne-foodf9278]

Thanks for the tips! Though I think as long as you are mulching with organic material you should be okay. Better than just keeping soil exposed.

[@positivelybeautiful1]

Oh my gosh, I did it all wrong. I will correct. Thank you. Also, I love Migardener Trifecta, bamboo gloves, nail brushes, and seeds (they are sprouting now). Fair prices too for the quality.

[@Bluesongz70]

6:20 - squirrel photo bomb

[@aaronthiessen170]

Thank you for the information 🙂

[@aquienleimporta1]

Great info thanks

[@balrajsekhon4014]

Thanks. Useful info

[@NicholeLynne28]

Well, shoot. I make at least one of these mistakes... Thanks for helping me fix my trees!

[@acechadwick]

This is probably THE most informative video ever!

[@edperez1206]

great video!!!

[@donnybuddz]

thanks bro from Sonoma CA 💯✔️🔥

[@franswa7251]

Great videos! could you tell me how do you keep your grass from creeping in the mulch? I keep my mulch very thick for the lawn not to get near. Thanks

[@chacho1155]

Thanks for the tips. Should I however allow the water to pool when watering with my drip hose? I ask as you stated the trunk should stay dry.

[@goofyahhh-ix8tj]

Hi I agree with keeping mulch away from the tree trunk. Also the coloured bark on any edible fruits or veggies. I do like to put down a lot of cardboard before topping with any natural bark substance. As using any form of weed mat or plastic… kills the natural organic underneath…eg.. worms, they can’t get to through the top to breathe. And the weeds seem ok for a while but then in wind, the seeds and bird droppings sit on top and dirt is blown on top and you get weeds between the top and the weed mat still. Cardboard is the best before adding any bark. If some weeds pop up, they are so easy to remove. And you know you are doing good to underneath as the worms eat cardboard. 😊

[@miguelsalami]

Good info THANKS👍👍

[@weirdsweetcoolplants]

Not to mention that, but also we might get some really good colors this fall because of the rain too.

[@kevinberry4949]

Hi I love the channel . I would like to ask some advice on a soil ph problem . My soil is clay and at present severely alcali and I need a quick fix for this season as the plants are nearly all in place . Any ideas for a fix to keep me going until I can get enough compost and manure to ballance it better ?

[@cultclassic9970]

great tips 👍

[@jorrba3934]

This is my first time watching your video. I did add some red mulch on my landscape once before. I will never do that again. I learned sometimes, and i will keep watching your videos. Thanks

[@BobLinton]

Apple Tree from seed ...from an apple....in the ground today...THANKS FOR TIPS!

[@sarihalevy45]

Great video and to the point. I'm in.

[@lindasands1433]

I agree with most of what you advised. I'm curious about bark and woodchips though. Wouldn't they leach the soil of nitrogen if used as a mulch? Pathways are ok of course

[@marshallhanig1047]

thanks for this helpful video! I'm curious if - with an old lemon tree not doing well (20+years; over 15 feet), would it be helpful to lay down some new soil in addition to addition mulch around the base? Thanks!

[@killuminatepeacefulness3948]

I used red mulch on my blueberry bush . Now im going to remove it and use a natural mulch. Thanks luke!

[@sergiocarmona6636]

Great video. I planted a peach tree about 2 weeks ago here in Texas. It looked almost exactly like your other pear tree. I was thinking it was dead but after a few days it starred growing leaves!!.....but from the bottom of the trunk not the branches? Is that normal?

[@simplysweetjn]

amazingly said

[@Sachinyadav-sp9jp]

Very useful 👍👍

[@luckychicav7981]

Thank you Luke!! ;)

[@ddthakur5468]

Very good brother thnkuuu

[@tbird475tjk4]

When you're tree shoots suckers up you can mound sawdust or loose soil up on it over winter and it will root above the ground in the sawdust so spring you can separate them, graft a cutting from the main tree and you have a clone

[@ArmindaHeart]

In the forest, the natural mulch is bunched up around trees, sometimes more than a foot. Dense forests have super thick mulch. I know many people who thickly mulch up against their trees, and the trees flourish. Wood chips allow air flow. And I live in a hot, arid climate. Thick mulch is what works here.

[@alsansoni5321]

I agree...I also do thick mulch and don't have issues...my mulch isn't very fine, thus very airy...The closer you get to the soil, the more moisture there is....great habitat to feed the fruit trees.

[@IAmHumanJake]

When was the last time you seen a all natural fruit tree forest?

[@ArmindaHeart]

I grew up in a forest. And I observed what I observed. Thick mulch, no roots exposed, unless it was a clear, downhill area exposed to wind and rain. Or the trees were growing from rocks, which rocks hold in moisture and provide minerals.. There are many different types of forests. Dense forests produce dense mulch. The point is most of nature, if left alone, produces its own mulch, whether it’s leaves, fallen limbs, bark, grass, and grasses. And it falls where it falls and can be dense and thick up against any tree, shrub, plant, etc, and it flourishes from the added eventual and continual compost and moisture. I don’t see how you don’t know this about nature. When’s the last time you’ve been in the forest? Lol!!!

[@richlaue]

Mulching right up to tread allows the critters a clean path to the trunk. Also a thick mulch tends to trap moisture, preventing water from getting to the ground. This moisture tends to harbor bacteria and is responsible for house fires yearly. This is the same way a wet bail of hay will ignite.

[@ArmindaHeart]

Rich Laue - lol you’d need an awful lot of mulch stacked up pretty high in a mound for a fire to ignite, and that’s pretty unlikely at that. I often get loads of wood chips that sit in 4’ heaps and never do these ignite, tho it gets hot indeed. It’s just mulch. And look up the Back to Eden guy, Paul Gouchie. He mulches his orchard thickly up to the trunk and his trees are thriving. Where are you getting your information from?

[@bmclark82]

Luke, can you make a video about growing fruit trees in pots pretty please?!!! I have a grafted plum, grafted cherry🍒, grafted apple🍎, and grafted peach🍑 tree all in pots (because I don’t own my home, I rent), and I’m thinking about getting a fig tree to put in a pot. I’m in the DC metro area. I would love a tutorial about growing fruit trees in pots.

[@nldcam]

bmclark82 I have the same thing. Got them last year, they're growing beautifully but still wonder how large a pot they will eventually have to be moved to. Do you move them in winter? I live in a zone 7 and moved them to our large hallway in the entrance but think they suffered more with the dry air indoors.

[@_JanetLouise]

Thank you!

[@jspinosa50]

I just realized, that my gardener by mulching year after year killed my 40-year-old Japanese maple. 5 years ago the leaves started turning brown. Then branches started dying slowly. Then the bark stated falling off, and this year is dead! I wish I would have seen this video sooner I'd be 900 bucks richer. I'm planting 2 maples and I won't' let him go near them!!

[@antoniomontgomery1349]

I dont have fruit trees, But I do take advantage of the tons of pine straw laying around my yard.

[@Robert_A_Keyboards4948]

Interesting because a lot of professionals that do landscaping do add a lot of mulch and yet the trees and plants thrive. Not to say it's right, however realizing that plants are more resilient than people think. Or it may be in the winter areas the storms and snow and wind end up removing some of the mulch. So by next spring you actually have to add mulch......:)

[@drea4195]

LOL I always hear your title as "Am I Gardener?" Yes buddy, you are. ☑

[@mrjason9382]

Thanks for shareing

[@charlesfredrick4789]

Volcano mulching not only leads to trunk rot but it also Harbors insects and leads to girdling roots which will in time kill the tree

[@garrycole9187]

Here in Phoenix area, people regularly mulch 6 + inches, some people mulch their whole backyard 2+ feet. They said it makes add organics and to amend to the soil since it is sterile clay here.

[@HiddenAgendas]

I'm looking at your trees and the mulch are right up against the trunk. lmfao

[@mochitwa]

Another great video. I have a request, I noticed mulberries are now very in; my parents also just planted one. Do a video on them?

[@scrotiemcboogerballs3453]

Those things are so invasive I've got them popping up all over my property due to the church next door not wanting to clean them up so they just keep on spreading

[@KumarShanuVerma]

Nice info. Can I use kitchen scraps for mulching?

[@JC-Utopic-Gauntlet]

thank you!

[@she2302]

Thank you 😊

[@nativejuicevapors]

We use loads of wood chips under our trees there all amazing

[@justinbuss]

Not knowing about the colored mulch mine has red around it now.. I did move some away from the trunk will it be fine for the week until I get payed or does it need to be removed immediately? Thanks for the tips!!

[@drillsergeant623]

“Immune system of a tree” 🤣🤣🤣

[@robertberdine890]

I love the videos and everything great information, but what about what Paul gautschi always says?

[@j-deezy321]

This guy obviously doesn't look at nature

[@djratino]

I use clay buster that's a natural pine bark mulch that's very fine. I use it making tree circle gardens. I don't have anything small like you're showing. I have newly planted bushes. It's around 3" deep. Too thick, you can't get water to it. 🐀🐾

[@Postmall1]

Just because someone uses the word chemicals does not mean that they are all toxic. It’s OK to buy dyed mulch. Just look on the label to see what type of dye is used. Some are bad most are good.

[@EdnaSabile95]

What’s the best mulch to use to an apple and pear tree?

[@rayandmelaniemelograne7209]

Very helpful. Thanks:o)

[@LW0625]

Hi there! Is the mulch from redwood tree good for mulching the garden? We plan to use it for our landscaping. We have big yard and don’t want grass Do we need to put anything under the mulch so that the weeds won’t grow. Thx!