The picture is too big to load for me showing as little square, but whatever it is, it will be good, doesn’t matter if it’s a bit twiggy, so much the better. All roots down in the end
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@DampGardenMan all kitchen scraps.....empty kitchen and toilet roll....newspaper. ...I only built (I say loosely) 2 compost areas from pallets late last summer . I emptied the full green bin into one of them and like magic. ....I have compost in the spring
@Mary370 I try to keep the mulch slightly away from the stems of shrubs and emerging plants and also away from the crowns of any dormant plants I can actually see. It can be a fiddlier job at this time of year if (like me) you have loads of perennials just peeking through. Earlier in the year there is less to avoid but I rarely get round to doing it then. Plants which are dormant and below the surface just seem to work their through.
One problem I haven't found a solution to is inhibition of desirable self-seeding. If you have an area where you would like some plants to self seed, I would leave that unmulched. Mulch suppresses desired seedlings as well as weedlings.
Does that help at all?
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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I try to keep the mulch slightly away from the stems of shrubs and emerging plants and also away from the crowns of any dormant plants I can actually see. It can be a fiddlier job at this time of year if (like me) you have loads of perennials just peeking through. Earlier in the year there is less to avoid but I rarely get round to doing it then. Plants which are dormant and below the surface just seem to work their through.
One problem I haven't found a solution to is inhibition of desirable self-seeding. If you have an area where you would like some plants to self seed, I would leave that unmulched. Mulch suppresses desired seedlings as well as weedlings.
Does that help at all?