Why Mulching Your Garden Is So Important

[@knotyeolde.susannah]

Awww gotta love 'Puppy Hour' ... 💖 I love how you keep firing commands at them & they don't listen 🤣 they both have you wrapped around their paws! Loved the puppy-dog eyes Kara was looking at you with after you made her sit ... And of course you gave in ... Could see your arm moving as you patted her 💖 She knew you would give in 🤣 I wish you'd done this segment yesterday 🤪 I went out after watching this as I had mulched my tomatoes ad we've got high 30s all week (prob get 40 where I am), and pulled some up & it was dry underneath 😩 So I kept pulling back & deep watering the soil then put mulch back & soaked that through ... You're so right about soaking the mulch BEFORE putting it down! Really enjoyed today's segment!

[@Chrisfrogwoman]

I put a hole in my bagged mulch (sugarcane) and pop the hose in and wet it, then just leave it for a month / sometimes 6 months before I use it: Fantastic!

[@knotyeolde.susannah]

Hey! You have another website? Details ... Also, I'm sure many years ago when feeding horses... The wedges/slabs of hay, etc that each bale broke up in to was called a 'biscuit' ... Goes well with you breaking it up in the water in your wheelbarrow ... You must have been hungry 🤣

[@davidbrucebruce8490]

it still is called a biscuit

[@melissanoonan3301]

As always, great insights! Thanks so much. Happy New Year to you and yours and all the very best for 2023 :)

[@nettywrightson8268]

We use old weed free Lucerne bales and find they rejuvenate and feed the soil and microbes as they break down.

[@lisas5913]

I find that using sugar cane mulch, it gets stuck together and creates a barrier, might try a different mulch

[@GiovanniSanna-rd5cy]

Varlessie is OK to wet the rest of the dry hay then put in garden beds

[@gabbyb7342]

Welcome to owning large breed dogs :) He's such a handsome boy and she's a gorgeous girl xx

[@sunkobra]

Cheeky dogs 😂😂 that was funny

[@davidbrucebruce8490]

Brilliant segment today ol' mate. What are your opinions on Mother Nature's made beneficial microbes compared to Man Made cultured beneficial microbes?

[@paulgoodall_]

The price of sugar-cane mulch here in South East Qld has gone through the roof. Wish I could find baled, unwrapped bean straw like that here.

[@lyndaserpell]

Did you say Bean Straw? Where do you get that?

[@snuffoutrouge5109]

The bean straw looks hard to find. The main thing is the word straw as it does not contain seeds or weeds in it. Gumtree you will find pea straw . This is what locals where I reside use as it is cheap but a trailer is needed to pick it up. Unless you find a seller that will deliver it to you. My neighbour wanted me to reduce the height of my hedges to stop leaves getting into his pool. Well one was a 30 ft high tree and the rest were tree like in height 15 ft. My greenfield piece maker has been mulching the cut branches into mulch took 3 weeks and all my gardens have mulch from the cut down trees ( that are meant to be hedges). I have a bag of pea straw from the hardware store but have not used it yet. I was using sugar cane on veg garden from Hardware store during winter , but now has extra layer of tree mulch for summer. My neighbour is extremely happy with my gardening effort. I have a bag of cow manure from hardware store that I will use next Winter with the pea straw to farrow the veg garden for spring.

[@Chrisfrogwoman]

Love Cara and Vader

[@musoandafan965]

Its weet bix for plants, gotta hydrate it

[@sniper10666]

I used lucerne and all I got was more lucerne growing I got rid of it and went to sugar cane

[@Thomas-1967-AUS]

don't ever be sorry to play with your babies... we love ours.