Creating a low-maintenance, Florida-friendly landscaped yard and garden starts with mulch. Whether it is organic bark mulch, stones, or rocks, may be easier than you think.
Why Should You Use Mulch? Here Are 10 Benefits of Using Mulch
Save money on pest control. Mulch can make your landscape and garden more resistant to diseases and pests by adding organic matter to the soil.
Save time and money by not watering as much. Mulch retains moisture and prevents evaporation Research shows mulch can actually retain 70% more water than soil that has not been mulched.
Save money on fertilizers. Organic mulch slowly releases valuable nutrients.
Protects young, delicate plant roots from the excessive sunlight and heat.
Save time, money and help the environment by not applying chemicals to kill the weeds. Mulch also blocks sunlight, so weeds can’t grow.
Mulch can make your landscape and garden visually appealing!
Improves soil drainage and prevents erosion, it also helps to bind sandy soil.
Prevents valuable nutrients from leaching out of the soil.
Mulch insulates the soil, which means it keeps the plant roots cool during our extremely hot summers and warm during the winter months.
Organic mulch breaks down and provides plants with micro-organisms and supplies food for earthworms.
A trip to your local garden center may have you wondering which mulch is better and how you are going to lug all those bags from the store to the car to your landscape. Purchasing organic mulch or rocks in bulk is not only more convenient and better quality, it can also save you lots of money!
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