the first time I have heard a perfect explanation of mulching...thank you

Great video, loved the backdrop of your beautiful garden

What a wonderful and informative video. Thank you so much. I'm a novice gardener and finally bought some red wood mulch and this helped give me an idea of how and when to use it.

Another helpful video! Thanks!

Yeah!!! I was waiting for this Angela 💕💕💕

Great explanation. Thank you so much.

A wonderful video as always. Such good practical information and well presented. No music thank goodness. Thank you for this .

Thank you for sharing very good information on mulch.

I just love your channel! ❤ It definitely helps me cause we're in the same zone!

Excellent presentation !!

Thanks for this great information!

Thanks for your amazing discoveries

A brilliant video, thanks so much.

This was great. Thank you!

So nice to have great local content! Keep up the good work.

Very useful. Thank you

It is a very useful blog and very important information about Mulch.

Wonderful, thanks for sharing your experience

Very helpful!👍😘 Thank you.🙏😘💖

Thanks for sharing Angela.

Wonderful video and I like your style of speech and presentation. Thank you for making this to help us all!

thank you so much for presenting both a succint and organized video. sometimes I forget how much that is lacking on KZfaq until I see a video like yours.

Great content, Angela, very informative, I will use more mulch in my garden beds 👍💕

I was so impressed with this incredibly outstanding "internet classroom experience" I actually watched this extremely informative video twice. Thank you for going into details of the various ways to use mulch and at what times rather than just glossing over such important points of interest! 👏 👏 👏

Angela, YOU Are an angel to my garden ❤️🙏🏻 Thanks a lot!!!

I preordered the book! I just bought my first brand new house in Tucson, AZ. Ready to get the backyard going! Pretty excited!

I love your you tube channel, you explain everything so perfectly and so easy to understand. Thank you so much.

WONDERFUL video! Thank you. I can't keep up with the weeds and we'll try some of these options this year. : )

Thank you for the most accurate discussion of mulch. We have hot hot hot summers with no rainfall and winters with slow, steady rain. Mulch does much to mitigate the drying effects of the heat and allows the soil to retain moisture.

I mix pine needles and leaves chopped up into the lawnmower bagger. The mixture gives you the benefit of not compacting like just leaves do with the airy nature of pine needles. Also, the pine needles stay in place way better than leaves in the wind. Living in Louisiana there's NO shortage of either. Oh, they're free also.

Thank you, very informative. GOD BLESS!

Thank you a very well.presented video …we live in the Deep South and keeping the soil as cool as possible and protected is an absolute as well the no weed benefits…amazing ….. this 70 year old gardener loves the ease and beauty that shows in the plants and soil with this consideration…stay blessed

I totally agree with every advantage to mulching you mentioned. I use various kinds of mulch throughout my garden, HOWEVER I discovered that my mulch in several of my raised beds became a harbor for earwigs. Earwigs are my biggest problem now. I’ve had to remove the mulch and set traps where I’ve caught hundreds of earwigs. When they’re gone I will reapply mulch. Appreciate your channel!

Excellent video!

Thank you, thank you, I have been watching and loving your youtube videos! I also live in AZ in the Phoenix area and have restarted gardening this last year. Finding you as a low desert gardener is helping with my own gardening!! Quick question relating to the leaf mulch you described... Can you use citrus leaves as mulch? I know that citrus tends to be different. Appreciate your advise!

Very good and detailed video.

very informative video, thank you for the video :)

Thank you for your sharing.

So funny, I was just adding a layer of woodchips to my tomatoes this morning. I came in after and see that you just posted this!

All great info. Thank you so mulch.......much!

Awesome video

thank you

Very nice 👍

I am pleased to say that I now use mulch in the garden bc of this instructive video! It also promoted me to (finally) visit the AZ Worm Farm for the bagged composted mulch. This is slightly off topic, but I am wondering what your thoughts are for veggie gardening under trees as a way of using natural shade. I am specifically thinking about gardening under Palo Verdes given their diffused/dapppled light...thoughts?

Thanks again Kitrobbo

Love your channel 👍 We live in a slightly wetter climate and have a LOT of slugs. Isn't mulch a perfect hidingplace for slugs?

I am a new subscriber and love your videos. I was curious where you got your tin handled scoop that was in your wheelbarrow to distribute your mulch. If you have an affiliate link to Amazon I would love to order one. I have arthritis and think the suzeofvthis would be usable for my hands. Thank you fir an awesome video!

Hi I’m learning about gardening, I live in SC, and I have pine needles and a lots of leaf from threes around our property, so my question is do I need to compost them before I use them? Thank you and I love your channel.

Does cedar mulch repel pollinators? Thanks for the helpful video.

Thank you so much for all the helpful videos! I live in the high desert and have big sage brush, black bush, and ephedra on my land. I removed some of those bushes to build a house and garden and want to chip/shred them for garden mulch. My friend said those plants might leach something into the soil that kills veggies, but I haven't been able to find anything about that in my internet search. Do you know or should I just experiment, maybe adding some fertilizer with it?

Good article... nice lady.

I use mulch at the bottom of my pots for self watering and it works like magic...I add a drain hole for extra water right above the mulch line at the bottom

I shred with my lawn mower . Leaves and lose straw. Thank you great content

Here in Yuma, AZ at the end of May. Would like to grow a few things, Compost is almost complete.

Thanks a lot for this video! Can I add dried grass clippings as mulch on top of the containers with strawberries?

Hi Angela, my question is can I use peat moss as mulch? Thank you 🙏🏻😇👍 I love watching ur videos it helps me a lot 🥰

Such great information! Maybe you can use a reusable plastic bins rather that the one-use plastic bags that contribute to the plastic waste problem. (And definitely don't put those bags in your recycling bin. They get caught in the recycling machine. )

Great video, as always. Question- do you have any advice on keeping mulch from blowing away ? I live in the CA high desert and we get hit with constant windy days here 💨. It’s been challenging to keep mulch around my veggies.

Nice,,,idol,,👍

Lovely lady. I have garden my sown seed not growing in winter. Tem is 35 . I don't know

Hi Angela! I bought some bricks of Coconut Fiber and Coir Chunk Blend by Mega Mulch, but my friend said it's not good mulch, that coconut husk has no nutrients, do you agree or is it ok to use in my garden?

Hello. Should I mulch a raised garden bed at the time I sow seeds? Or should I wait until the plants start growing?

Great video, question someone told me that if I don't remove the old mulch and just put fresh/new mulch on top of the old one, fungus will start growing. Is this true? Just wondering

We have a palo verde tree - would the 'needles' from that be ok for mulch?

After the summer do we remove the wood chips from the beds, then fill back up with compost, plant then add the wood chips back after the plants a little bigger?

I added straw to my garden last year, when the plants were were 6 to 8 inches tall. a week later I had an explosion of potato bugs. within a week all of my melon plants were dead.

Hello. I’m here in Southern Las Vegas and I’m wondering why you put the mulch over your irrigation and not under it in your raised beds?

Nice olla

Can you recommend anything bagged that would be readily available at the big box stores like HD or Lowe’s? Im in CT & surprisingly there aren’t any great sources for bulk mulch or compost.

I mulched my tomatoes and jalapenos with hardwood mulch. I've seen videos that say I shouldn't mulch my cucumbers and squash because it gives squash bugs more area to hide. Is that true?

Hi, may I ask if Coco fibre is a good mulch for all kind of plant? And hay too?

Great info! Just one suggestion: please don't shred leaves as many creatures overwinter in them. They are a valuable habitat for invertebrates; shredding them kills these precious creatures that WE ultimately depend on. The leaves will break down eventually.

Which type of mulch is ph ideal or ph neutral & can get rid of gnats or bad insects that can harm plants?

After adding mulch in a container, we need move the mulch frequently to check the moisture which is a hassle . Please advise.

Have you used stinging nettle as mulch yet?

Hi! I am new to your channel but already enjoying the wealth of information you provide! It is hard to find good resources specific to our area so thank you! I do have one question for you…I love the look of wood chips, but do I need to be concerned about termites and scorpions? Thanks in advance!

Doesn’t the watering grid on top of the mulch be exposed to the sun and crack faster/ last less/get cooked?

Have you talked about coffee grounds? Use or not use?

New to gardening. So you have to put compost down before you put down the mulch?

Where can I purchase the grids that you have on your beds?

What is your opinion on shaved pine animal bedding as mulch?

Where do you suggest purchasing bark/wood chips for pathways? We live in Phx area

I'm very new in gardening. So if this year I covered my bed with mulch next year if needed to add soil do I need to remove mulch or not . thanks

Somebody please help. So what about the wild grass that just grow by itself can I use it as mulch after cutting it?

How do I remove the mulch before the next sowing season? Should I just mix it with the soil in that raised bed? Do I remove it and compost it? Should I remove it, keep it and spread again?

Strange to hear about pine needles-- here in Turkey they absolutely kill everything, they are considered very bad for the garden. Interesting!

What if I use shredded newspaper on top as a mulch would this be ok ?

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I have a giant silver dollar eucalyptus tree that sheds terribly so I was wondering if the leaves and bark can be used as mulch? Is it toxic or if it dries for several days in the sun would it work? I have an abundance.

Why do you water over the mulch? Would you not save a lot of water watering below the mulch?

What about pecan tree wood chips, pecan tree leaves, pecan hulls and shells as a mulch for tomatoes and peppers? Pecan trees have small amounts of juglone and I find it confusing which part of the tree might affect these types of vegetable plants. Does dried versus still green materials have juglone? We have a small pecan orchard and hence plenty of mulching material.

Is dish soap good for pest reduction? Which one is best?

Can I use bottle tree flowers? Oleander flowers and leaves?

Where do you get straw? I've looked and can't find it. I live in the Phoenix area.

Can you use remains from dead heading your plants

Did anybody else notice the aphid infestation on the plant that was hanging out of the bed at 5:55, yikes I've been there

Ok this is embarrassing and slightly unrelated. I have soil that I left in a bag outside because I didn't need it at the time, but I would like to still use it. Unfortunately it got moldy I guess from being outside in the elements and in that plastic bag it came in. Can I still salvage this and use in my garden or compost it? or is it better to just get rid of it?

Mulch does indeed have a lot of potential benefits. But is is not a miracle item that produces nothing but benefits. It also brings a few problems in climates like we have hear in Mississippi. We got about 73 inches of rain last year thus we have an incredibly moist and humid semi-tropical growing environment. Mulch helps preserve moisture in the soil but in a very wet climate it can lead to all sorts of unwanted problems, starting with creating a too moist environment which is attractive to microbial growth. Fungi, mold, and various plant disease organisms can thrive in the moist, organic mulch layer. Also lots of unwanted bugs, pests, and insects find the mulch layer to be an ideal home. They burrow into the moist and cooler mulch layer to remain out of sight during the heat of the day but come out to feed on the plants at night. So mulch may not be a truly good option for wet climates where there really is no need to preserve soil moisture. Mulch may do more harm than good in those circumstances. Too often gardeners give gung ho advice on something that works well for them in their particular growing spot without recognizing that hardly anything is universally applicable everywhere for all types of gardening methods or on all types of plants. This is not to say I don't see the merits of mulch. Personally, the mulch that I use which has worked best for me here in my area is straw from stems of the broomsage plants. I just let them grow wild in fallow areas on my land and harvest all I need by hand. The stray is extremely clean and weed and pest free. It costs me nothing whatsoever other than my labor to cut and haul it to my garden. As it rots down, it just adds organic matter to the soil. It seems to be a favorite habitat for slugs but other than that, not many other pests seem to like the broomsage straw. Nicely done video! Thanks for sharing it.

Leaf mulch can I use it to help the trees that have been neglected ????????

I am not sure mulch is so great idea in a garden with more wet conditions. It could be a very good place for insects to thrive, particularly earwigs. We often have a pretty big problem with them and they love to hide in dark spacer like mulch. Snails also love to hide in mulch.