August 21, 2019 Living Mulch, the Patron Saint of Olives, George Celery Taylor, Adelbert van Chamiso, Dorothy Cadberry, Mary Bowerman, August Prose, Medicinal Herbs by Rosemary Gladstar, Cardinal Flower, and Taking an August Break
How do you start adding living mulch to your garden?
One of the simplest ways, is just to look for the spots in your garden that are bare.
Look for the open areas and start there.
Look under your shrubs.
Look along the edges of your beds.
Instead of adding another layer of mulch, add plants.
Think about planting these living mulches in terms of planting families. In other words, planting en masse. This is what the naturalists and ecologists do naturally; They think about plants in terms of population.
New gardeners tend to think of A PLANT and not A PLANTING; so think bigger. Think community…
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