Tag Archives: mulch

Rose collars.

I live in West Toronto.  I used rose collars and mulch to protect my roses last Fall.  The soil is sandy and I can dig in a spade depth near the roses.  When should I remove the mulch?…

Using sawdust in vegetable garden as mulch?

I would like to get some info on using the sawdust and wood shavings on my garden this year as mulch or working into the ground in early spring. Would putting a lot of this down kill the weeds and…

Fall mulch and fertilizer

what fertilizer and mulch to apply  to a) a garden on ground level, and b) to a roof top garden on the 9th floor.…

Compost, manure + mulch

We own a farm, near Nobleton, Ontario. We have access to large quantities of materials to make our own compost. We use fruit and vegetable and plants materials only (never egg shell, or meat scraps), as well as yard waste, …

Termites and mulch

I have very sandy soil in the backyard of my new home – it needs lots of organic matter. Normally a pine mulch would be good but because I’m in a termite area, I’ve been advised to stay away from…

Leaf mulch

I was going to make some leaf mulch with the leaves that I’ve gathered from my front yard. I was going to layer the leaves with city compost (5 ” of leaves to 1/2″ of compost) in a large old…

Leaf mulch

This past winter I used fallen leaves to spread over my flower and shrub beds as mulch. It doesn’t look very attractive now. Should I remove it entirely or just some of it and add in some other type of…

Weeds in the mulch

I’m a fairly new gardener and this year, I graduated from purely annuals to perennials. I also put down mulch for the first time but for some reason, after it rains, I seem to have a thousand tiny weed heads…

Weed control

Based on an actual survey, I spend about 6.3 % of my garden time planting and encouraging the plants I want, and the remaining 93.7 % discouraging the plants I do not want (weeds and invasives). I don’t want to…