The mulch definition not according to Mulch It Now. The definition we found today about mulch "is any material, usually organic, that is spread on the ground to protect the soil and the roots of plants from the effects of soil crusting, erosion, or freezing; it is also used to retard the growth of weeds" leaves allot to be desired.

The definition continues: "A mulch may be made of materials such as straw, sawdust, grass clippings, peat moss, leaves, or paper" but they forgot on the organic side to add wood chips (the side product of tree removal, utility line maintenance, ice and wind storm cleanup); a major source of base material in and around the Northern Hemisphere.

A very sore subject but another organic source of mulch is pine needles sold by chain stores like Wal-Mart, Lowe's and others, which its harvests is devastation the environmental balance along the coast line of Louisiana and other gulf states of the USA. Manure available in overabundance is not mentioned, another potentially environmental problem is another major source of base material for both compost - topdressing businesses and the mulch and mulching industry.

On the inorganic side they left out rubber and plastic. Rubber is promoted as the dust free mulch product especially used in and around playgrounds, horse arenas, dressage rinks, topdressing material for heavily trafficked compacted grass areas on sports fields and parks; but a very big potential environmental danger because Zinc is being released in amounts unhealthy to plants and humans. We would like that the academics in The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 get together to rewrite The mulch definition not according to Mulch It Now.

A.v.Bubenberg

How to Use various Mulches?

How to Use various Mulches in my Garden? Is the number one question of our FAQ hit parade this week, when people call or write about the Mulch It Now, Doylestown, Pa 18901 Mulching Special.

As you probably know if you have read our blogs so far this year mulch applied properly will serve many important purposes. Even a small layer of mulch will stabilize the temperature of the soil, helps to reduce your watering bill since mulching aids to retain moisture, the natural weed control.

Organic mulches improve, as they continue to decompose the soil nutrients and create a good environment for earthworm development.
What type of mulch

So back to our number one question: How to Use various Mulches. With the petroleum, food and mortgage monetary crisis in full swing, some of you may have to minimize your mulching cost this year and do the job yourself. So here is a pointer of how to reduce the cost and make use of well decomposed garden/yard waste. The leaves you collected during your fall and spring cleaning of years past, grass clippings, compost, small wood chips and pine needles are good sources to reduce your mulching cost this year.

If you have pets that need litters consisting of sawdust, straw, hay, wood chips, and wood bark can be other sources of organic mulches.

Some Inorganic mulch sources are gravel, crushed stone, sand, pebbles, cinder, and shredded rubber( be aware of high levels of Zinc are found in soils where shredded tires have been used). Some people include synthetic layers of plastic, poly fiber weed block; we at Mulch IT Now do not recommend this vary expensive practice because it does not really work. distill perforate the fabric and all other weed use the same openings too.

"When to mulch" was and has been our number two question. Customers every year say to us" "I don't want you to come to early, we have graduation party in June and the mulch will have faded".

Mulching can be practiced year round, for various reasons. Aesthetically, in the Northern Hemisphere we apply mulch at the beginning of the growing season.
Some people apply or have their mulch installers do a spruce up around Labor Day and for protection of their bulb plants again around December and maybe even for all the year end parties :-).


Should I remove the old Mulch and replaced it new one every year. Is the next FAQ question on the hit parade of mulching. This is Mulch It Now s position. No, No and No! Reason number one, the decaying mulch is adding to the soil texture as discussed earlier in this blog and second the installer and mulch provider get to make more money off of YOU!

For you that have to save this year, the question most often asked this spring is: How is mulch applied?

Normally we suggest adding a 1 to 2 inch layer to stabilize the soil temperature and reduce evaporation. Some gardeners and landscapers apply more than 2 inches of much, this can lead to a variety of problems such as overheating of the not to well seasoned wood chip based mulch. Do not smother your plants with mulch either. Your plant material should not come in direct contact with the mulch, a distance of about the thickness of a male a thumb should be left around every plant stem or trunk.

When you are mulching around your trees should extend the bed out to the drip line.

These few pointers in this Mulching Special Blog for Doylestown, PA 18901 should have answered some of your burning questions of: How to Use various Mulches

Mulch where and How? The never ending Question!

Mulch where and How? Or annual application of mulch in planting beds, around woody plants and especially newly planted or replanted trees is a must. You should consider as well to mulch all exposed soil surfaces of your container garden. Never apply more than 1- 2 inches of new mulch per application. If and when you have to refresh the aesthetic look of your property the one to two inch rule of mulching application should be adhered to.

For woody plants and especially newly planted or replanted trees you should cover the entire tree and shrub planting beds, or make mulch rings at least 3 feet wide around each plant in lawns. Keep mulch a few inches away from stems, crown and trunks to prevent rot and pest damage. You can always tell, if a mulch installer builds a pyramid one two feed up a trunk of a tree, that he did not learn his mulch installation business from an arborist or trained landscaper.


If money is tight this year a good source of home grown Mulch or Compost, sometimes also called Humus. So next fall your leaf pile and shredded small branches, if you properly turn the pile over periodically, can become a great natral very inexpensive source of mulching material.

Further more an application of organic mulch can repair an off balanced ph level of your soil and stimulate the growth of your plant material drastically.

If you have anymore questions about Mulch Where and How join the folks over at Mulch It Now and their professional mulching crews ... Don' Miss there Doylestown PA 18901 Mulching Special

Mulch and How and When should one Mulch

Since the usefulness of mulch and how and when should one mulch has been debated for ever, but in our article Who Invented Mulch we found out that it is a must to regulate our favorite plants health environment.

Mulches come in various shapes, sizes, colors, textures, and materials as well as age and quality. If this is already too complicated for you, the folks at Mulch It Now and their Master mulching installers can either help you make the proper choice or do the whole mulching job for you. Take also advantage of their Mulching Special, Doylestown Pa 18901 which is on until 31 March 2008.

Back to how and when to mulch story, each mulch choice has a different effect on the status of health of the plant and the improved aesthetics of your landscape. If we leave he everlasting debate of how and when to mulch aside all plants and soils will benefit from a properly conducted mulching application.
How Mulch Works:

Covering the ground around plants is the first mission. This will help

- regulate the roper moisture level of the soil. As we indicated in an earlier article the evaporation can be reduced by 50%decrease compared to bare soils.
- natural weed control is another benefit of mulch
- stabilize the temperature
- color choice will have an impact on how the sunlight is going to be either absorbed or reflected.
- the lighter the mulch helps in reflecting heat
- dark mulches have the propensity to create more heat from the sun and release it during the night.


One of the most important parts is when should one mulch?

In spring one should apply mulch only after all seasonal plants have emerged. All varieties of woody plants and any kind of tree should have (up to its drip line) one to two inches of non-compacted mulch applied. This practice should be especially heeded for younger or freshly transplanted trees and woody plants.

The question of how and when should one mulch needs a few more answer here.

- one should mulch anytime one creates another bed to prevent soil erosion and for al the reasons covered in the first mission above.
- fall and early winter is another time to apply mulch to prevent excessive frost damage to our favorite plants
- smaller amounts of mulch can be applied up to three times a year to maintain and or improved aesthetics of your landscape

If you would like some help with your mulching chores or mulch selections, why don't you call the folks over at Mulch-It-Now

How to Mulch - Doylestown Pa 18901

So you want to learn how to mulch yourself. As we are entering this financial recession of 2008 many of you may want or have to just do that. We at Mulch It Now fully understand and would like to help you with some of our suggestions, tips and basic instructions of how to successfully mulch your property yourself this year.

For the total beginner the question may come up: How do I properly mulch my beds and trees, like my gardener did it last year?

There are a few things you should consider to do first.
Go ahead and remove all debris, dead plants, and the hardy weeds that survived the cool temperatures of winter from all open soil surfaces to be mulched. Adding mulch will improve the condition of your soil, stabilizes the temperature control, erosion and reduces drastically the new weed growth of your garden.

In the geographic areas where watering is a must to maintain a good looking garden, thin layers of mulch will reduce evaporation and your water bill too.

An other aspect to consider before you are out there doing your Spring Cleaning Thing is to evaluate the various qualities of the mulches you desire and what is available at the local garden supply stores or chain stores. Mulches need to be evaluated on appearance (grey mulch may have outlive its lifespan to be of help in you sprucing up your property).

If you rather have us deliver the mulch call us at Mulch It Now and qualify for our Doylestown, Pa 18901 and surrounding township Mulching Special, before 31 MARCH 2008

Makeup or consistency and texture of your mulch are other selection criteria to be watchful of. The mulch should not be too fine, the wind will carry away large quantities before the warm or growing season is over.

Here are some examples:
We at Mulch It Now and our Installers prefer darker mulch. The rain, wind and sun turn natural light brown mulch into a grayish look in just five to six week after installation.
Not all people like to install organic (wood fiber) mulch; so you may consider a mulch of cinder, gravel or sand of various colors.

For the vegetable gardens lovers, pine needles and hay are excellent mulch sources. We do not recommend artificially colored mulch for vegetable gardens.

If your topsoil is of poor quality you may want to add ½ inch of well seasoned compost to aid Soil improvement condition of your beds. Organic mulches over time will break down and add organic matter to the impoverished soil of your landscape.

Now you are ready to apply your mulch. Around the plants we spread it by hand as not to damage the plants. In wide open areas use a wheel barrow and pitch fork to spread the material.
Once you have finished spreading your mulch take a leaf rake flat on it's, with the teeth pointing up (we are not raking leaves here) go over the whole installed are and sweep gently back and forth. This will smoothen out all the unevenness of the mulch and give it a professional installer look.

So here is the story of "How to Mulch"!

Good luck with your Spring Chores!

Mulching Special, Doylestown PA 18901,

Anyone living in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 18901 or any surrounding Zip Codes qualifies to for the Mulching Special. We are unable to extend the 25% discount to any of our customer beyond the 15 mile radius due to the oil crunch. Our Mulching Special Installers, Our Mulch providers have drastically increased their fees. So to make it possible to pass on some of the discount from our Mulch It Now tradition from years past we had to restrict the radius of our mulching special. We will need to have your order and down payment in our office no later than 28 March 2008 to qualify for the Mulching Special Doylestown PA 2008.