Organic Vegetable Garden Mulch

Using mulch in your organic vegetable garden, or any garden, will provide several benefits. The three primary benefits are it helps conserve water, suppresses weeds and adds organic matter to the soil, all with only a few minutes time spent. Organic Vegetable Garden Mulch 1. Helps conserve water. The reason mulch helps conserve water is that it shades the soil. By adding mulch the soil will stay cooler, losing less water to evaporation and staying more evenly moist, which is good for the plants. 2. Suppresses weeds. A good layer of mulch will keep weeds from growing. Weed seeds need […]