~Happiness By The Yard!~ Lawn, Landscape and Garden Help since 1984
“Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.” ~Lewis Gannit
To mulch, or not to mulch, that is the question.
Mulch is an absolute necessity! It serves a variety of purposes;
•it adjusts temperature by helping soil retain more heat in spring and fall, and by keeping soil cool and even out temperature swings during hot summer conditions.
•it will control weeds by blocking the sunlight from reaching [...]
How deep, what soil amendments, do I add water, does it need fertilizer?….Oh shoot, I should have tilled that up first. I think at one time or another we have all been there.
It’s not as easy as digging a hole and plopping the plant in. You can do that with SOME plants, but definitely not [...]