The Best and Worst Mulch for Your Garden | Southern Living
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Our very own Grumpy Gardener gives you the low-down on the mulch varieties to buy and those to avoid.
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Great video, much appreciated.
Listen some mulch has nutrients the hard wood mulch is good for helping plants not freez in winter without desterbing the acidic in the soil it lasts long dosnt decompose as fast it may wash away but so dose pine bark I recommend hard wood if your going to protect rozes from freezing but pine bark for your acid loving plants but make shure it dosnt touch the trunk and don’t bark branches in it unless it is on Perris and has bean decomposing for a couple years
Rubber mulch!! Wtf
Thank you!!
Why didn’t you mention hard wood mulch?
In regard to rubber mulch, I completely agree with not using it in the yard or garden. However, it does have its place – I used it to create an approximately 3 foot wide barrier around my house and it works great – it’s maintenance free; no weed issues; and most importantly, it stays in place because I have it bordered off with bricks and other non-organic borders; it also helps prevent termites because I don’t have wood next to my house.
Cypress will attract termites, go for pine straw or ceader if you like your house.
The worst of all..the black mulch thst smells like petroleum!
Uh….the “rubber mulch” is for the playground spaces. lol. Not flower beds.
…what about black mulch 👀😶
Well I am glad I found this. I am about to set up a raised bed garden not feet away for some huge Pine trees. Good to know LOL! 😉
I LV t look of red mulch … but my new plants died from it ..! NO more cedar chips great
Rubber mulch is great for playgrounds. Helps protect kids from getting hurt when they inevitably fall.
You’re hilarious, Sir.
The red mulch is great for businesses it’s colorfully and a hard wood. It lasts it fades but a good way to brighten up a business it makes flowers pop with color but to each there own
Everyone has opinions. I love putting the Red Mulch on my Tomatoes in Containers. High Yeild and Tomatoes are.Red and they Love the Red Mulch. Sorry Dude
He kinda has the voice of Papa Franku a little bit.
I’ve decided to get more pine bark mulch since I’m planting azaleas and other acidic soil loving plants since I heard pine is great for keeping the soil acidic.
what will you use for a slope , am afraid with rain it can be washed away :((
Pine straw is highly flammable. My city bans the use of it as ground cover within 10 feet of multi-family dwellings.
I like cedar mulch the best
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Natural mulch is best. Colored sucks if you’re planting stuff, after some time that color starts seeping into soil too, and when you plant something on your clothes as well. Pretty annoying.
I use single ground mulch and large bark nuggets. They look good and last longer than the other mulches. I am in zone 6
Here in OK, we have cypress mulch so that’s what I use. I don’t like the dyed mulch either. I’m a Florida native so the pine straw and pine bark nuggets are great too. Be very careful with bailed pine straw as snakes can be in them!
Love this!
Red dyed mulch looks like trailer park landscaping
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As a landscaper I’d have to suggest something with a good water retention. Very fibrous and gritty mulch. Not necessarily pine needles but standard barkomulch (a little bit finer than the nuggets) or hemlock which is almost dirt it’s so fine
Also if you have a pet don’t get the dyed stuff they will stain your carpets
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Mama raised me properly we didn’t buy dyed mulch lol
Can you use pine bark in a vegetable garden?
So, if one uses red mulch he looks foolish and everyone will know he probably has a truck up on blocks in his backyard? Well, I like the look of red mulch but I live in the country, not a ticky-tacky suburban neighborhood in the metro area of some city like you and your snot-nosed followers.
I have put rubber mulch over two years ago with no regrets. Hardly any weeds, no fungu, does not compact, keeps the dark brown color, my roses, shrubs are not affected and smell or chemical leaching. I will not have to buy mulch for the next ten years or more. Rubber mulch is worth everything dollar. I hated the dyed mulch
You may have gotten more likes if you didn’t insult 90% of your viewers. 😂
Now I’m sick. We are currently professionally landscaping our front yard. My husband chose that awful red mulch on all the garden beds. I said, RED? that doesn’t even sound appealing and I was right. It’s possible it’s not ordered yet, maybe I can suggest the mini pine bark nuggets to him. Let’s hope.
Oh, soooo scientific! JUST DON’T USE IT!
pine leaves as mulch?. I heard that pine leaves are toxic for other plants. So that nothing grow under the pines. Just wondering….
Hey man. My truck is up on blocks in the FRONT yard. I’m a real redneck man, not one of those wannabes.
I just placed red mulch for all my rose plants. No regrets.
Wow, other than being dyed, and being wood, he gave no real reason not to use red mulch. I expected some sort of professional opinion, nope, just a guy on the corner who e
yells people who walk on his lawn.
I love using corn cob bedding as my mulch. 1 it’s cheap 2 it’s all natural. 3 it looks like small rocks.
Use rubber mulch for pathways.
Moss grow literally everywhere here so I use that. They’re a pest, but they don’t smother the trees so no one fights it.
He is speaking to me, I have a truck on blocks in the backyard and about to put down red mulch
Oh man!! I’m trying to hang out with this guy
Wow pine straw?? I got plenty of those
I used red die mulch one year and it killed every plant in the bed. I will never buy another mulch with added anything in it . They have color with color guard and one year guarantee that the chemical will stay with the mulch . Well I dont want to eat the die or the color guard with my peppers or tomatoes so I get the natural stuff now .
Hi there is spruce mulch bad for gardens
You forgot one other one: rocks as mulch, no plants either! No birds, No life! Cold and dull, …but hay, no more weeding. Cleanliness is next to goodliness. Don’t you know? (Sarc off now, lol) visited Sursee in Switzerland, latest craze there!