Everything affects how your Central Florida landscape and garden grows, from fertilizer, soil, to mulch. While many things affect how your plants grow, mulch provides a variety benefits.
Whether you’re growing tomatoes, zucchini, and peppers, or roses, ferns, and hydrangeas, mulch is the secret to a healthy garden and landscape.
Weed Control
Reduce the time you spend weeding. Dominating the plant world, weeds rule for three reasons.
1) When exposed to light, weed seeds are easily germinated.
2) The average garden soil is packed with these types of seeds.
3) Weeds are able to survive and even flourish under very difficult conditions.
Weeds are very aggressive, competing with plants for water, nutrients, and sunlight. Mulch stops weeds in their tracks, by blocking sunlight not giving weeds a chance to germinate.
Water Conservation
Water is easily absorbed in the porous mulch membranes. Soil can quickly lose moisture, mulch acts as a buffer reducing evaporation. Plants absorb water during the day through their roots to process nutrients. Mulch reduces water usage and encourages healthy plants.
Soil Enrichment
The cornerstone to a vibrant and thriving plant is healthy soil. Mulch plays a valuable role in fostering a number of plant partnerships, increase productivity and encouraging diversity in the soil.
Prevent Soil Erosion
Our torrential downpours and high winds can mean losing valuable topsoil, while our record breaking heat can kill necessary microbes. A layer of mulch can lessen erosion and allow beneficial microbes to thrive.
Moderate Soil Temperature
Our extreme heat can burn fragile plant tissue and roots lying close to the surface. Mulch acts as an insulator, minimizing fluctuations in the soil temperature. Instead of using resources to repair the damage, plants can use them to grow.
The quality of mulch you use plays a huge role.
Bagged mulch from big box stores often contains weed seeds, toxins, and hazardous materials. Buying mulch in bulk, not only saves you money, you can also see and smell the quality. This quality is then passed on to your landscape and garden.
Our service, reliability, consistency and quality are what distinguishes Reliable Peat from the rest, contact us today!
