Mulched Plants are Healthy Plants: What is the best mulch?
For our clients, we recommend using premium shredded hardwood mulch. This type of mulch will offer the most benefits to your landscape and your plants.
Premium hardwood mulch includes only the bark off the tree and does not include the actual wood. It is ground three times to give a nice uniform, fluffy texture. Premium grade mulch is a great product to use for new installation and for areas where plants need lots of nutrients.
Double process mulch is a good product to use as well. There is just a wider range of particle sizes because the mulch isn’t ground as fine as the triple ground premium grade.
Another type of mulch that can be used for mature and established landscapes is double or triple ground mulch that also includes wood chips into the mixture. This doesn’t decompose as quickly, but still has beneficial nutrients for the plants. There is a range of sizes in the particles for this type of mulch, but it is a good value for using on a mature landscape.
Consider using a premium double or triple ground mulch for your landscape. All other organic mulches can have lots of weed seeds, blow around and don’t look as aesthetically pleasing as premium shredded hardwood mulch.
There are so many benefits of mulch and using premium double or triple shredded hardwood mulch can give you the most benefit.
Here are just a few of them:
- Inhibits weed germination and growth
- Holds moisture in the soil and protects roots from drying out quickly
- Moderates soil temperature fluctuation. Keeps plants cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter
- Prevents frost-heaving
- Prevent soil erosion
- Adds nutrients to the soil for your plants as the mulch breaks down
- Helps prevent soil compaction
- Gives a uniform color and texture to the landscape beds
- Creates a finished look to the landscape
Next time we’ll give you tips on how to apply mulch to your landscape beds the proper way to get the most benefit for your plants.
After learning all those benefits, can you think of any reason not to use mulch?
