Mulch
noun
A material, often decaying leaves or compost, spread over soil to protect or improve it.
She spread mulch around the base of the plants to help the soil retain water.
Often appears as...
- spread mulch
- garden mulch
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To cover (a surface or area) with mulch.
You should mulch the garden beds to protect them from frost.
Often appears as...
- mulch the garden
- mulch the soil
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A material, often decaying leaves or compost, spread over soil to protect or improve it.
She spread mulch around the base of the plants to help the soil retain water.
Often appears as...
- spread mulch
- garden mulch
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To cover (a surface or area) with mulch.
You should mulch the garden beds to protect them from frost.
Often appears as...
- mulch the garden
- mulch the soil
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Gardening Term
Mainly used in gardening to describe a protective ground covering.
Adding mulch in the spring can enrich the soil.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Materials
Mulch can be made from many different materials, not just leaves.
She used straw as mulch for her vegetable garden.
Pro Tip 3/3Soil Improvement
Mulch is used to improve soil health by adding nutrients as it decomposes.
Organic mulch can add vital nutrients back into the soil.
Pro Tip 1/3Gardening Term
Mainly used in gardening to describe a protective ground covering.
Adding mulch in the spring can enrich the soil.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Materials
Mulch can be made from many different materials, not just leaves.
She used straw as mulch for her vegetable garden.
Pro Tip 3/3Soil Improvement
Mulch is used to improve soil health by adding nutrients as it decomposes.
Organic mulch can add vital nutrients back into the soil.
Pro Tip 1/3Gardening Term
Mainly used in gardening to describe a protective ground covering.
Adding mulch in the spring can enrich the soil.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Materials
Mulch can be made from many different materials, not just leaves.
She used straw as mulch for her vegetable garden.
Pro Tip 3/3Soil Improvement
Mulch is used to improve soil health by adding nutrients as it decomposes.
Organic mulch can add vital nutrients back into the soil.
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How to Plant a Tree PIPE...
mulch a lot of organic matter and put that around as it's growing and let the earthworms and stuff take that or damage my head down to the soil and I let that speed beat the tree so let's go ahead and get some water water this tree you want to give your trees a lot of water when you first plant them that help to settle
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The Water Crisis PIPE...
compost mulch we're going to build a swale a rain garden so when you have a rain storm and there's a surge of water we're creating a place for that water to go and then over time it will slowly permeate into the soil and the plants around it are going to take up that water can i help yes if you
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Energy from floating...
mulch and this is plastic that's making these tiny little green houses right along the surface of the soil and this provides warm the soil to increase the growing season it allows us to control weeds and of course it makes watering much more efficient so the omega system will be
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Farming for the Planet PIPE...
back into mulch to feed those microorganisms to start that flywheel of essentially alchemizing death back into life to build soil that really is ground zero i guess right it's everything right you know without that there is no new life after death
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How to green the world's...
So on this bit of grassland, we'll do it, but just in the foreground. We'll impact it very heavily with cattle to mimic nature, and we've done so, and look at that. All of that grass is now covering the soil as dung, urine and litter or mulch,
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How can we help bee...
Labor Day by planting plants that bloom outside of that time period we can help ensure that bees can find food when it's more scarce for them and to most native bees live in the ground but they can't really nest and mulch try dressing only
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Hidden Alaska PIPE National...
looking down on a braided river that's coming down from a glacier and this is over at Lake Clark okay so there are three rivers two of them going down into Bristol Bay and the other the mulch Ahtna going into Lake Clark this is just
Video examples
Wings, Water, Wind...
comes through wipes a clean slate and life starts appearing fairly rapidly as these plants grow and die there are bodies that are left behind decompose and start creating this rich mulch that other things can continue to grow off of
Video examples
Cooling Cities By...
and putting down a layer of mulch to protect the from that rapid evaporation this is a part of eileen's job she's the regional manager in southeast la for tree people an environmental nonprofit that aims to
Video examples
Leaf-Cutter Ants PIPE...
they take them back to other members of a colony will grind them into a mulch for growing fungus then the ants eat the fungus it's a cultivated crop needing constant supplies
Video examples
How to Plant a Tree PIPE...
mulch a lot of organic matter and put that around as it's growing and let the earthworms and stuff take that or damage my head down to the soil and I let that speed beat the tree so let's go ahead and get some water water this tree you want to give your trees a lot of water when you first plant them that help to settle
Video examples
The Water Crisis PIPE...
compost mulch we're going to build a swale a rain garden so when you have a rain storm and there's a surge of water we're creating a place for that water to go and then over time it will slowly permeate into the soil and the plants around it are going to take up that water can i help yes if you
Video examples
Energy from floating...
mulch and this is plastic that's making these tiny little green houses right along the surface of the soil and this provides warm the soil to increase the growing season it allows us to control weeds and of course it makes watering much more efficient so the omega system will be
Video examples
Farming for the Planet PIPE...
back into mulch to feed those microorganisms to start that flywheel of essentially alchemizing death back into life to build soil that really is ground zero i guess right it's everything right you know without that there is no new life after death
Video examples
How to green the world's...
So on this bit of grassland, we'll do it, but just in the foreground. We'll impact it very heavily with cattle to mimic nature, and we've done so, and look at that. All of that grass is now covering the soil as dung, urine and litter or mulch,
Video examples
How can we help bee...
Labor Day by planting plants that bloom outside of that time period we can help ensure that bees can find food when it's more scarce for them and to most native bees live in the ground but they can't really nest and mulch try dressing only
Video examples
Hidden Alaska PIPE National...
looking down on a braided river that's coming down from a glacier and this is over at Lake Clark okay so there are three rivers two of them going down into Bristol Bay and the other the mulch Ahtna going into Lake Clark this is just
Video examples
Wings, Water, Wind...
comes through wipes a clean slate and life starts appearing fairly rapidly as these plants grow and die there are bodies that are left behind decompose and start creating this rich mulch that other things can continue to grow off of
Video examples
Cooling Cities By...
and putting down a layer of mulch to protect the from that rapid evaporation this is a part of eileen's job she's the regional manager in southeast la for tree people an environmental nonprofit that aims to
Video examples
Leaf-Cutter Ants PIPE...
they take them back to other members of a colony will grind them into a mulch for growing fungus then the ants eat the fungus it's a cultivated crop needing constant supplies
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Quote examples
Rita Rudner
American Comedian
While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.
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Pam Brown
British Writer
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Gretchen Bleiler
American Athlete
Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.
Quote examples
Rita Rudner
American Comedian
While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.
Quote examples
Pam Brown
British Writer
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Quote examples
Gretchen Bleiler
American Athlete
Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.
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