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Mulch
Hi--Merry Christmas!!
What name of mulch do you use for your flowers? Everyone says to mulch--roses, perennials, annuals, etc. But please give me the name of the one you use and like the best! Thanks Linda |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:31:43 GMT, "Linda"
wrote: Hi--Merry Christmas!! What name of mulch do you use for your flowers? Everyone says to mulch--roses, perennials, annuals, etc. But please give me the name of the one you use and like the best! Thanks Linda I use different things. I have a chipper/shredder so that makes a lot of wood chips and ground up leaves (I have about 200 trees). For the rose garden, I use composted cow manure ("Black Kow" in a yellow bag.) For my azalea garden, I use pine needles collected from the pine woods. I use home-made compost for annuals, clematis, hydrangeas, and peonies. All mulches I use decompose. |
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Linda wrote:
Hi--Merry Christmas!! What name of mulch do you use for your flowers? Everyone says to mulch--roses, perennials, annuals, etc. But please give me the name of the one you use and like the best! Thanks Linda not knowing alot myself, i was told to choose according to the type of soil, zone, and exactly what kind of flowers will be planted. good luck. |
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escape wrote:
If you want to get technical, fungal based mulch is best for trees and shrubs and bacterial based mulch is best for perennials. What the hell is fungal based mulch? What the hell is bacterial based mulch? -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 |
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"Travis" wrote in message news:fMCzd.15957$_62.4038@trnddc01... escape wrote: If you want to get technical, fungal based mulch is best for trees and shrubs and bacterial based mulch is best for perennials. What the hell is fungal based mulch? What the hell is bacterial based mulch? These terms are typically used in reference to compost specifically but can be extrapolated to include other organic mulches as well. Compost that is high in greens or animal manures tend to be more highly populated with beneficial bacterial organisms than those with higher woody content, which tend to be more fungal populated in nature. Therefore, finished compost or composted manures tend to be better for perennials, annuals and vegetable crops and woody mulches (bark, pine straw, wood chips) tend to be better for trees and shrubs. pam - gardengal |
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Pam - gardengal wrote:
"Travis" wrote in message news:fMCzd.15957$_62.4038@trnddc01... escape wrote: If you want to get technical, fungal based mulch is best for trees and shrubs and bacterial based mulch is best for perennials. What the hell is fungal based mulch? What the hell is bacterial based mulch? These terms are typically used in reference to compost specifically but can be extrapolated to include other organic mulches as well. Compost that is high in greens or animal manures tend to be more highly populated with beneficial bacterial organisms than those with higher woody content, which tend to be more fungal populated in nature. Therefore, finished compost or composted manures tend to be better for perennials, annuals and vegetable crops and woody mulches (bark, pine straw, wood chips) tend to be better for trees and shrubs. pam - gardengal Thanks Pam. I always learn something from you. I just mulched most of my backyard with free wood chips from a tree service. First I killed the grass (not lawn) with RoundUp and then applied the chips. My intent is to have the water (rain and supplemental) go mostly to my bamboo's, trees and shrubs and not the grass. For the most part the chips are 3 inches deep. I hope for more chips so I can cover the whole yard. -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 |
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escape wrote:
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:54:57 GMT, "Travis" opined: Pam - gardengal wrote: "Travis" wrote in message news:fMCzd.15957$_62.4038@trnddc01... escape wrote: If you want to get technical, fungal based mulch is best for trees and shrubs and bacterial based mulch is best for perennials. What the hell is fungal based mulch? What the hell is bacterial based mulch? These terms are typically used in reference to compost specifically but can be extrapolated to include other organic mulches as well. Compost that is high in greens or animal manures tend to be more highly populated with beneficial bacterial organisms than those with higher woody content, which tend to be more fungal populated in nature. Therefore, finished compost or composted manures tend to be better for perennials, annuals and vegetable crops and woody mulches (bark, pine straw, wood chips) tend to be better for trees and shrubs. pam - gardengal Thanks Pam. I always learn something from you. I just mulched most of my backyard with free wood chips from a tree service. First I killed the grass (not lawn) with RoundUp and then applied the chips. My intent is to have the water (rain and supplemental) go mostly to my bamboo's, trees and shrubs and not the grass. For the most part the chips are 3 inches deep. I hope for more chips so I can cover the whole yard. -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 Actually, you learned it from me, but didn't look it up and Pam told you what it was. Roundup can kill trees and shrubs. I hope you didn't get any on them. I Googled "fungal mulch" and didn't see anything. I know how to use RoundUp. -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 |
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:22:15 GMT, "Travis"
wrote: I Googled "fungal mulch" and didn't see anything. I know how to use RoundUp. -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8b Sunset Zone 5 So you don't the difference between mulch and compost? |
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Travis wrote: I just mulched most of my backyard with free wood chips from a tree service. For the most part the chips are 3 inches deep. I hope for more chips so I can cover the whole yard. Travis- If those are hardwood chips. and a wild guess would say at least part of them are, then I wish you the best. Take a look at some of these search results for artillery fungus, also known as shotgun fungus. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...fungus&spell=1 You may decide to re-think your yard. The last time I dug deep into this, maybe a year ago, there was still nothing that would clean the spores from your house, your car, your lawn furniture, etc. |
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