| Hardwood bark mulch, rotted sawdust, and chopped corncobs are good mulches. |
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| With my warm soil, the peas grew well, even under thick mulches of newspapers weighted down by horse bedding. |
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| Organic mulches, such as wood chips, shredded bark, or other plant residues, can be applied to weed-free soil soon after planting. |
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| Outside chores consist of checking winter mulches, making sure there are plenty around trees, shrubs and perennials. |
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| The author also gives directions for gardening with weeds and various types of controls including using hoes and mulches. |
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| Cultural practices used in organic gardening include the use of mulches, crop rotation, and common-sense things like simple hygiene. |
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| If you are using mulches in your garden, you are providing good carabid habitat. |
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| So-called organic vineyards use mulches of living plants as well as dead material. |
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| Earthworms often thrive under mulch and in general mulches usually help plants grow better. |
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| He stakes and cages the tomatoes, mulches the beds with grass clippings, and makes compost. |
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| Therefore, we studied during three growing seasons the effect of undersowing wheat with living mulches on wheat grain yield. |
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| Woodchips, bark, grass clippings, leaves, pine needles, straw, and sawdust are examples of organic mulches. |
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| Perennial weeds growing from underground structures are capable of growing through organic mulches. |
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| Amend soil regularly with compost and apply organic mulches continually to enrich your soil. |
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| As these mulches slowly decompose, they provide organic matter which helps keep the soil loose. |
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| Use mulches and ground covers, and deep-rooted plants to stabilize slopes. |
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| Finally, top up decorative mulches, as they will help to suppress unseasonal weed growth and provide insulation for tender bulbs and plant crowns against hard frosts. |
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| Inorganic mulches are materials that come from nonliving sources. |
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| The machine pushes the tree down, and then the grinder mulches it. |
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| Comparing fumigant retention of polyethylene mulches for nutsedge control in Florida spodosols. |
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| Organic mulches can trap moisture around the plants' bases, encouraging root rot. |
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| Complex mulches, crop rotations and tillages are used in rotation on terraces with complex irrigation systems. |
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| These include peat moss, animal manures, shredded leaves, other mulches, compost, recycled garden and household waste. |
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| A significant increase of SOC was observed in plots mulched with organic mulches. |
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| I realize there is some controversy about the use of certain mulches around fruit trees. |
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| The use of mulches is so common that there is not sufficient waste bark to satisfy the demand. |
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| In addition to factory-made paper mulches, there are woven, nonwoven, and perforated plastics that let air and water in but block light. |
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| The best mulches are composed of organic materials that will break down over time to add structure to the soil and feed the microorganisms. |
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| Plastic, tarpaper, fabric, stone and other nonorganic mulches provide no food to soil organisms, and they can add heat and thus injure plants and soil microorganisms. |
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| Think of living mulches as groundcovers that self-renew, self perpetuate, perform environmental functions and add ecological and aesthetic dimensions as well. |
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| Is it not one of the tasks of mulches to keep the soil warm? |
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| The company's Hyponex products are the nation's leading line of organic products, including top soils, potting soils, composted manurers and bark mulches. |
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| The worst that can be said of some organic mulches is that they encourage such nuisances as earwigs, sowbugs, slugs, and snails by creating a dark, moist, cool environment. |
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| Jacobs recommends avoiding the commercial soils and mulches that you get at the local garden supply center, opting instead for a more natural product. |
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| It may help to review the reasons why winter mulches of evergreen branches, salt marsh hay, or other weed-free mulches are applied over perennials and spring bulbs. |
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| Mulches of accumulated leaves, salt marsh hay, wrappings of burlap or any other material is best done one layer at a time. |
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