What Is The Benefit Of Mulch And When Should I Apply It?
What are the benefits?
Mulch is often an overlooked aspect of your yearly maintenance on your property. Without a fresh application of mulch, your landscape beds would be lacking in health, quality, and appearance. There are many varieties of mulch consisting of cedar, black, brown, or red hardwood, as well as playground. Mulch has many benefits. Mulch allows for moisture to be retained in the soil allowing for plants to grow and stay healthy. This also means less watering for the homeowner. Also, mulch helps prevent weeds from sprouting by not allowing sunlight to penetrate through. Your plants stay insulated from the warm summer heat as well as the winter cold leaving your plants healthy year long. Last, they help prevent soil in the landscape beds from being eroded or washed away.
A fresh layer of mulch is the final coat to your outdoor living experience. Applied properly, your landscape beds would look neat, clean, and smooth as a carpet. Mulch allows for a beautiful backdrop for all plats, shrubs, rocks, and much more. It is impossible to not notice the difference mulch makes.
When to apply?
Application of mulch usually takes place twice a year, once in the spring and one in the fall. Proper preparation of the landscape beds takes place before mulch is installed. Proper preparation includes wedding, adding pre-emergent, trimming hedges, shrubs, ornamental grasses, as well as edging of the beds. Depending on the previous condition of the beds, mulch is applied with a thickness of 2-3 inches. Often, less mulch is needed in the fall season. This service is important to properly winterize your property.
Not too much…
On the flip side, there can be a thing as too much mulch. Installing too much mulch can allow for excess moisture to build up along the roots of plants. This causes soil to become soggy and the possibility of a root disease being born. Also, an excess of mulch could possibly kill the plant by trapping too much heat around the roots during the warm summers.
Contact us
If you still have questions about mulch, look no further than Golden Wolf Landscape & Design LLC. Our professionally trained staff knows everything about mulch. We take the worry out of your hands by knowing when to mulch, how to prepare landscape beds for mulch, when the best time to apply mulch, how much to apply, and what type would look best on your property.
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