In this video, I explain what is the best mulch for your garden, fruit trees and landscaping, and it is completely free! This free mulch is like gold, and it is falling from the skies right now! I’m talking about leaf mulch and pine straw mulch! Do not throw away this precious material. Grab it before it’s gone! This video explains how to use it.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Stop Throwing Away Mulch!
1:09 Mulching Benefit #1
2:08 Mulching Benefit #2
2:18 Mulching Benefit #3
2:29 Mulching Benefit #4
3:25 The Effects Of Mulch
4:48 The Best And Worst Mulches
6:24 How To Collect Free Mulches
7:09 How To Mulch A Tree
8:27 How To Mulch Garden Beds
10:59 Adventures With Dale
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If you enjoyed this video, please Like it and share it to help spread its reach! THANKS for watching🙂TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Stop Throwing Away Mulch!
1:09 Mulching Benefit #1
2:08 Mulching Benefit #2
2:18 Mulching Benefit #3
2:29 Mulching Benefit #4
3:25 The Effects Of Mulch
4:48 The Best And Worst Mulches
6:24 How To Collect Free Mulches
7:09 How To Mulch A Tree
8:27 How To Mulch Garden Beds
10:59 Adventures With Dale
And that is EXACTLY what I think…Look at all the leaf mold lying in peoples' yard…and they are going to throw it away!
Hope there's no poison, Ivy in the bag
Turned my compost pile today then cut of the dead yellow asparagus from my one bed of Mary Washington and gave it a good layer of compost nice and black. Soon I will mulch it,first I want to work on getting leafs chopped up and added to compost.
Hi! Can you use the mulched leaves for strawberry beds? TIA!
Very important advice, thanks so much for the PSA. In addition to mulching, I love piling up my leaves and making leaf mold, which is one of the best potting soil or any kind of soil mix additive. Cuts down on my use of Coco-Coir and peat moss as well. I have a pile that I keep adding to every year, and I use the finished product from the bottom of the pile, while adding new leaves to the top. Talk about garden gold, this literally saves so much $$$;!!
String trimmer in a garbage can to shred the leaves
I wouldn't touch that poison with your bare hands if you insist on giving it to your dog
Cedar chips. I bought some then read that I can't use it on my garden. 😞😞 Your thoughts?
Have you made a video on how to put that stone border by your trees?
Great video, it is also amazing to me at all the gold that many gardeners throw away. Unbelievable.
You need some help with your grass, young man.
Straw is almost always contaminated with herbicides.
Love the leaves, they are like gold for the garden soil.
This is so true! I am surrounded by maple trees and have a neverending supply of leaves. My husband runs them through the shredder part of his wood chipper and they come out amazing! I am able to put a 4 inch layer on my beds in the fall and have plenty left over to add into the compost pile all year. Thanks for another great video!
We have gardeners that constantly f*ck up my mulch piles. I tell them not to blow any of it and they don’t care.
I showed them the place to put the lawn cuttings & they tossed it in the green bin. Took 2 years to nurse a lemon tree back to health after they trimmed it like a bush only to catch them trying to cut the branches. They’ve stomped over my tomatoes, blow my plants with their blower on high, they uprooted my Salsify, took it & so much more shady stuff. I want them gone!!! But my mom won’t fire them. I personally do all the trimming that they’re supposed to do.
I’m trying to do all this but these idiots come weekly & sabotage all my hard work.
So frustrating.
I have been mulching for years but this is the best single dose of information I have ever seen on the topic. Thanks so much and thank you for reminding/educating your viewers about heartworms in dogs. It's great to see Dale getting top notch care and enjoying it at the same time 🙂
i've been watching you for years now and i still don't know what you say in your intro, power another what?
Always entertaining and funny while teaching important gardening information at the same time. Thank you for all the hard work. Keep Growing! ♥
Every gardener of fruits and veggies should see this video .MG does a great job( as usual) of explaining why leaves are so useful in the garden. I cover my winter garden here in East Tenn. with a thick layer of leaves sandwiched in between a tarp that sheds water. It's helped me harvest greens,lettuce,etc. in mid winter even after temps in the single digits. Leaves are truly nature's gold that is free for the taking.Thanks MG man and here's some hearts for Dale❤❤❤!
It would be great if you could add frequent "plugs" for creating habitat for overwintering beneficials in our gardens. Leaving areas of leaves lying au natural is vitally important in giving a variety of pollinators a much needed place to complete the winter portion of their lifecycles.
I save leaves from our maple trees and use them in my chicken coops for the winter. After it ages all winter they will go into the garden beds.
You can find natural holistic and effective heartworm preventive recipes and formulas.
Would you use all these materials for compost or mulch or does it really matter? Both of them would be good, correct?
Our neighbor across the street always blows and collects his leaves on garbage day. He told me I was free to collect it when ready! He’s so sweet that he also told me I could dig up a bare root of one his prolific flowers once they’ve gone dormant during the winter. I just love gardener neighbors!
The leaves have just started falling in my area, mostly red maple, Dogwood, and Poplar. I run over them with a lawn mower, and put the chopped leaves in two trash bins, my compost bins, and spread them in my unused raised beds and any place there is empty space. Soon the oak leaves will be falling too. I've been buildiing my soil this way for six years.
I drive around collecting people's leaves that they rake up and put into those brown bags every October. My soil is so rich now. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
…and here I thought it was raining… we could use some in Atlanta…
I pick up bags that the townies have to sack. I have BLACK SOIL from years of this. Worms that any bass would jump on. And veggies that are so… mmm mmm mmmmmm. Still got tomatoes goin (Big Boy) to ferment. Man! So good!!!
Personally I prefer compost as a mulch over anything else… those leaves do help fill out the compost pile though. 🙂
😂 My little corner of Georgia has tons of debris on the ground right now.
This is how I’ve created all of my gardening beds. Our N.C. clay soil becomes a great garden soil with time and leaf mulch.
Do you ever use grass clippings ?
I concur with your heartworm advice.
You are a national treasure. Your advice is solid, your research top engineer level, and you love your pup. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and kindness.
Dale is loooking great, his coat is shiny! He's so handsome 🐕💕
I always look forward to my deciduous fruit trees shedding their leaves. Free mulch for my beds! Especially the big fig tree! And I have a large backyard pine tree that usually drops lots of needles in the early summer here in the Phoenix area. So those pine needles and the pine cones get used as well.
I live in the desert and there are zero leaves anywhere zero! When I go to visit my son in Mississippi he has so many leaves I want to bag them up and bring them home…..well probably not a good idea as we do not have ticks or chiggers here 😉 I so covet people that have leaves. I get leaves from my citrus trees once a year when they bloom and drop lots of leaves. Palo Verde bloom once a year and I go around gathering wheel barrels full of blossoms for my compost…again once a year. You are so lucky to have leaves!!
Do the pine needles change the ph. I always understood they were acidic.
Dale❤️❤️ 🥰
Dale has eyes that could melt the iciest heart. Good boy, Dale.
Great video, thanks for sharing. Dale is such a good doggie ❤️
you are such a sweetheart. Nice guy and very kind and caring to your dog. Thanks for these videos.