Mulch is an essential element of any permaculture garden, and in this video, I share 11 natural mulches perfect for permaculture growing, including which are best for annuals versus perennials and the key mulches I am focusing on this growing season.
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Thank you Huw, great ideas, as always! I definitely need to order the wool mulch/fleece. I managed to collect around 500 slugs from my 5x8m garden yesterday and forcibly relocate them 300m away 😂I am so afraid to put seedlings out, as they get eaten straight away and I have already lost one sowing of beans and peas…
Hey! Use Hay! 😀 Last year a farmer dropped off a thousand-pound round bale of old hay that had been sitting in the field for a year and was no longer saleable. When I need mulch I can pull off a wheelbarrow full and start mulching.
Thank you for all your videos! They are so informative and really helpful!
Do you leave the mulch or do you remove it after a while?
Good job!👍
Grass clippings are my most abundant and freely available natural resource for mulching and composting. Next comes trimmings and such from the garden itself, particularly comfrey.
Excellent reminder! Do you mean straw? I was told not to use hay for the seeds.
Very informative, really enjoyed this video. You have given me a lot of food for thought!
Thanks so much!!
Do you rinse your seaweed?
Love all the information you always share and your calm demeanor is healing.
Thank you! 😃
Can you use grass clippings if you have mares tail through the grass?
🍃Good Day. Thank you for your great tips and advice. I saw a video with your Jaime Oliver using stinging nettle as a side dish…sauteed, plentiful where you are. In the caribbean, I use grass and plant clippings, compost or growing running plants like sweet potatoes or pumpkin around tall stemmed plants. Have a great day…
Is there no problem with salt on seaweed?
Have you tried growing mushrooms and using the remaining subtrate for mulch? Adding fungi to a permaculture set-up would be very informative content.
Can you use bramble chips the same as ramial chips?
I chop leaves up with the mower and mulch my veggies with them. The worms love the leave layer and break it down over the course of the summer.
Ramial chipped wood ? Never heard of it before, so had to Google it. Basically wood chips made from the small branches of deciduous trees.
I’ve just strimmed all the grass that’s grown around fruit bushes on an allotment I’ve recently taken on and I’m leaving the cuttings where they are.
Leaves for the win! The mold will attract the local fungi and bacteria and increase soil fertility quickly. Plus, leaves contain many of the micronutrients that are needed by plants and hard for shallow rooted plants to reach. Trees, with their deep roots, can get at minerals deep in the ground. Nice video, Huw.
Great ideas here. I'm worried about the salt on local seaweed. Do others put it straight on the garden as a mulch or rinse it first? I'll be putting it round Tomatoes and other veg. Thank you for any feedback 🙂
How about sawdust?