Why You Should Heavily Mulch Your Garden

Beekissed

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I had too many leaves to mulch up with a lawn mower also, so had to apply them as is. I'm not too worried about the potential problems with them being whole. I've got 6 in. of wood chip underneath of them as well, so will be able to see how both together on the garden will do.
 

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My garden is doing pretty good with using the leaves as my mulch. It did look very untidy, but the leaves did not blow around all that much. It also did a pretty good job with keeping the grass down. I do have to weed, since I had to cut through the cardboard to plant. Overall, I think the leaves were a big success. I also never saw any slugs.

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I've been able to get a couple loads of wood chips delivered over the last couple of weeks. Surprisingly, looks like at least half is leaves with the remainder being chips and small limbs/twigs. I have some of this spread out on my expanded garden site and putting some in my orchard. I just hope the loads keep coming. :)

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