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Plants growing through mulch
Due to a bad back I've just had some people in to mulch my borders with several inches of mushroom compost. Some of my new young plants have been covered and although I've managed to uncover most of them, I can't find any of my Brunnera Jack Frost. They were young ones which had just started sprouting and each had about 4-5 small leaves. Will they grow through the mulch, or will I have to remove the layer until I find them?
Thanks in advance!
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I think I'd pull it away from plants, especially young ones.
Some things come through with no problem, usually those you wouldn't mind losing
In the sticks near Peterborough
I would have a little scrape back where they are supposed to be and try and find them, inches of mulch will smother most plants (weeds or otherwise)
Thanks everyone. I've been out again and have managed to find one of the brunnera, a vinca, a geum and two potentilla but the rest have gone AWOL. Never mind, I'll keep an eye out and treat it as an excuse for a garden centre trip if the rest don't make it.
What's the best time of year to mulch? And if herbaceous plants haven't started sprouting when you mulch will they manage to come through, say, a two-inch layer?
Will be watching this thread with interest
I have spent the last countless number of weekends painstakingly arranging mulch around my plants. OH says if I do it in autumn next time i can just use the "blanket everything" approach, but I'm not too sure. Will things push through ok the following spring (will be using well rotted horsemuck)?? Or would they rot under 2 inches of that?
Thanks Verdun...thats what I wanted to hear