The advantage of mulching is known for a long time, but many gardeners neglect this agrotechnical reception during the work on the sites. Top soil the most fertile, but also the most vulnerable. It is destroyed by the sun, wind, heavy rain. That landings brought rich harvest, it is necessary to protect beds mulching, that is cover of the soil various material.
As mulch use natural materials: sawdust, last year's leaves, peat, small cones, humus, bark pieces, dry grass, the pulled-out weeds. Apply cardboard, paper, rags, film, haydite less often. The mowed grass and weeds at first need to be slightly dried slightly in the fresh air before arrangement them on beds.
The mulch which you lay between plants will create ideal microclimate for root system. Some kind of airbag under which the plant does not rot is formed, does not dry up and does not choke. Under mulch layer the soil remains friable and damp that is favorable also for earthworms who bring huge benefit.
Weeds will not annoy you if you carefully and accurately cover all space between cultural plants. The mulch reduces moisture evaporation therefore watering will become more rare that cannot but please the summer residents who do not have the source of water. The soil will not need to be loosened as under material layer the crust is not formed. With mulching you will be able to avoid also one more very labor-intensive process – redigging of the soil. Sense will not touch the healthy, perfectly structured earth without weeds. In this case digging up only harms as destroys "capillaries" by means of which the soil is saturated with oxygen. The mulch will help to keep the ripened fruits from decay at contact with the earth as they will perfectly settle on "pillow" of ukryvny material. The vegetable mulch rots through after a while and is fine nutrient medium for the subsequent landings. The shelter of the soil needs to be done in the spring when it gets warm sufficiently, usually it occurs at the beginning of May. At first it will be necessary to remove all weeds and to level earth layer. Then there will come the turn of complex fertilizers. Then it is already necessary to scatter mulch layer of 8-12 centimeters. If pieces very small, there are enough also 4-5 cm. Small stalks of cultural plants need to be bypassed. There is also synthetic mulch – dense black nonwoven ukryvny material. It too well copes with the duties, but, of course, the natural mulch is incomparably best of all.