The surface of the border should be mulched with leaves or strawy manure through the severe winter weather, uncovering the soil in March.
The bulbs lie dormant until spring, so far as outward appearances go; they are mulched to insure that they will not start in warm weather of fall or winter, and to protect the ground from heaving.
In the northernmost parts of the country and in Canada spring planting is usually safer, although on well-drained ground and when thoroughly mulched the plants may even there do well if planted as soon as the leaves drop in fall.
All garden roses should be well mulched with leaves or coarse manure in the fall.
In lieu of tillage, the sward may be mulched each fall with stable manure, and commercial fertilizer may be applied each fall or spring.
Lawns can be raked off and mulchedwith short manure, or rich garden earth where manure cannot be obtained.
The small fruits should be mulched about the roots, if this has not yet been done.
Fruit trees and shrubs may be set out; but, if planting is deferred to the last of the month, the ground around the roots should be mulched to the thickness of 3 or 4 in.
As to false stimulation, in the woods, where these trees grow native and under the conditions to which they are necessarily adapted, they are mulched and crowded when young by their competitors.
Any tree taken up and planted with reasonable care, and well mulched and watered, will live.
Every crop that can be mulchedwill be greatly benefited by it; hence, all the straw and litter that can be saved is money in the pocket; for mulching alone, it is worth five times as much as it can be sold for.
They should be given well enriched, moist soil, and be mulched through hot weather.
In dry weather, a sodded area may bemulched with a half inch of fine loam to protect it.
Hardy if mulched in winter, but best results are obtained if plants are renewed frequently.
All Lilies do better if well mulched with clippings of lawn grass or with very old manure.
The mulched soil is, however, cooler even than the hoed soil, and our expectation that mulching would keep the soil cool has turned out to be correct.
Some results were:-- Percentage of moisture in Date Hoed soil Mulched soil 1910 Sept.
Some of the results were as follows:-- Air Date temperature Soil temperature Hoed plotMulched plot 1910 Sept.
I mulched them, and saw them each year grow less and less until the third season they disappeared.
The seed saved from the mulched and from the cultivated plats was taken as it came, without selection, and was kept over winter under the same conditions.
Where celery is planted in single rows and mulched it will only be necessary to maintain shallow cultivation between the rows, not allowing the cultivator teeth to come nearer the plants than the edge of the mulch.
In 1904 a plat of potatoes was mulchedwith straw and an adjoining plat was given careful cultivation.
Mulched cucumbers produced perfect fruits during dry periods when the fruit from the cultivated plants was small and imperfect.
Seed was saved from the mulched and cultivated plats separately, kept under the same conditions during winter, planted on adjoining plats in the spring of 1905, and given identical cultivation during the summer.
Mulched cabbage produced larger heads than cultivated cabbage, and there was less injury from rot.
The roots are planted and mulched and the process is complete.
I have been experimenting for seven years with Ginseng and am convinced that the right way is to keep it mulched with leaves.
On heavy soil plants are liable to be earth bound; this is quite likely to occur on old beds that have not been mulched and especially in dry seasons.
I mulched with chip manure, leaf mold and horse manure.
Then sow a few handfuls of bone dust mulched with forest leaves and cover with brush to keep the leaves from blowing away.
Seeds just after ripening were planted in sandy soil mixed with well rotted stable manure and mulched lightly with manure.
All fall cutting beds should bemulched to prevent the heaving of the cuttings.
At the approach of cold weather the cuttings are removed to a cellar, or are heavily mulched and allowed to remain where buried.
If boxes are piled on top each other they should be mulched with moss, else the under ones may become too dry.
They were worked with a cultivator, mulched with pine straw in January, and stimulated from time to time with liquid manure.
On Staten Island I have seen large patches mulched with salt hay.
In the rich soil the plants make great, bushy crowns that nearly touch each other, and as they begin to blossom, the whole space between them can be mulched with straw, grass, etc.
Such methods may answer very well for small and well-mulched fruit gardens, making the home supply certain and large, but it is inadequate from a business point of view.
I have seen well-mulched fields with their plants faltering and wilting, unable to mature the crop because the ground had become so hard that an ordinary shower could make but little impression.
The majority will be satisfied with large, vigorous bushes, well enriched, mulched and skilfully pruned.
After planting, the trees were cultivated for a year or two, then the space between sown to grass and clover and the space just around the trees was mulched with manure, hay, etc.
A man once mulched my rows in such a way that the fruit hung over the litter on the soil beyond.
However, frost injury was more severe on mulched plats, and Emerson points out that the mulch should not be applied until the plants are well established.
Under the shade of the trees and mulched thickly by leaves, the forest floor usually stays moist.
If you mulch with grass clippings, make sure the neighbors aren't using "weed and feed" type fertilizers, or the clippings may cause the plants that are mulched to die.
In the North, earwigs and sow bugs (pill bugs) are frequently found in mulched gardens but they do not become a serious pest.
Fertilized with sacked steer manure or mulched with average-to-poor compost, most ornamentals will grow adequately.
I also suspect that actual, measurable moisture loss from mulched soil may be greater than from bare earth.
We were unable to mulch the entire orchard that year, and before we got the balance mulched you could tell as far as you could see the orchard which trees were mulched and which were not.
The quince is the dwarf stock of commerce but would need to be very heavily mulched to prevent root-killing.
If fruit is the main object, after the plants are well located and begin to set fruit for your main crop, they can be mulched with clean straw or hay, carefully tucked up around each hill.
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