If a little attention is given to the plant for the first two or three weeks, as watering or mulching or shading, it should become established and give satisfactory bloom the following year.
The mulchingshould also be sprinkled, but not enough to cause the water to soak into the bed.
At the end of eight or nine days the mulching should be removed and the beds covered with a layer of good loam 2 inches thick, so that the Mushrooms can come up in and through it.
Strictly speaking, however, a cover crop is used principally to secure its mulching and physical effects on the soil in the intervals between the seasons of tillage.
The sod mulch system of orchard culture is probably better adapted to rather wet good grass land and where mulching material is cheap and readily available.
They recommend mulching with farmyard manure or compost put on the soil and worked in and no artificial nitrogen because that again gives too much late growth, and you have trouble with killing back.
I think it beneficial, and would advise it on all soils, as I think too much straw mulching is an injury to the trees when they get old.
All the culture needful is to pull out the weeds, and, if the trees in the patch be not sufficient to furnish a good leaf mulch in the fall, attend to this by mulching with a good coat of forest leaves.
The material used formulching should be of a sort which will not contaminate the garden with disease.
The best form of humus is probably leaf mold, but good results may be obtained by mulching in the autumn or early winter with leaves, straw, stable manure, or similar materials.
Mulching conserves moisture, keeps the berries clean, and prevents weeds from growing.
The mulching of beds or rows should be no longer delayed, if clean and plentiful fruit is wanted.
At the end of eight or nine days the mulching should be removed and the beds covered with a layer of good loam 2 inches thick, so that the mushrooms can come up in and through it.
Under stones and pineapple mulchingpaper (Fullaway and Krauss, 1945).
Make the soil firm about the roots and give a mulching of stable manure.
Keep them well watered in dry weather, and if on a light soil a mulching of manure will be beneficial.
The mulching should be raked off in the spring, the ground lightly stirred with a fork and left to sweeten, and another mulching applied when the weather becomes hot and dry.
Mulching consists in spreading a layer of stable manure, about 3 in.
It prefers a sheltered situation, and during the summer months a mulching of litter and an occasional watering will be beneficial.
In dry seasonsmulching may be resorted to with advantage.
The hay or leaf mulching on the strawberry beds should be removed and the ground deeply hoed (if not removed in April in the more forward places), after which it may be placed on again to keep the fruit clean and the ground from drying.
Pruning, staking up or mulching can be done if the weather is such that the workmen can stand out.
Plant fruit trees in open weather, if not done in autumn, which is the proper season, mulching over the roots to protect them from frost, and from drought which may occur in spring.
Plant out tender deciduous trees and shrubs raised in pots; plant out tea-roses, mulching the roots.
When the number of roots is limited, the tops should be shortened, and some care in watering and mulching should be bestowed on the plant if it is of value.
The earth must be kept moist, which is perhaps best done by a thick mulching of moss, the moss being also bound closely over the openings in the vessel, and all being kept damp by frequent syringings.
In small areas the mulching system is sometimes preferable.
The same mulching might be more cheaply done with leaves, or other refuse matter, and the ammonia of the manure made available by composting with absorbents.
AM] The beneficial effects of mulching is so great as to lead us to the conclusion that it has other means of action than those mentioned in this book.
Mulching protects the surface-soil from freezing as readily as when exposed, and thus keeps it longer open for the admission of air and moisture.
Mulching prevents the growth of some weeds, because it removes from them the fostering heat of the sun.
The stand of the onions and lettuce is injured by mulching, while so few cultivations are required for sweet corn that mulching is hardly profitable, and in wet seasons the yield was decidedly decreased by mulching.
In striving for a large yield, with little regard to cost, or to insure against drought, mulching is useful.
Mulching in the furrow is not commended by the results of tests in Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan.
Have the material to be used as a mulch near at hand, and as the plants are set cover the soil around them to a depth of 2 inches, bringing the mulching material up close to the plant, but being careful to allow none to get into the heart.
While mulching with hay, straw, leaves, or other litter frequently increases the yield and is specially valuable in tiding over a season of drought, it is not generally practicable on farms where potatoes are grown on a large scale.
These conflicting results secured with potatoes would seem to confirm the conclusion reached at the Nebraska Station that mulchingis of greatest value in a dry season.
Mulching crops with straw or other litter is not very common.
But, if the impracticability of early mulching is a serious drawback to the use of mulches, so is the impracticability of midsummer cultivation under farm conditions a serious objection to dependence upon cultivation alone.
North of the latitude of Norfolk, spinach can be planted in the autumn and carried over winter by mulching with straw or leaves.
The experiment station tests have indeed shown mulching to be better in many cases than the most thorough cultivation throughout the summer.
In general it was found that mulching in Nebraska gave much better results in normal or dry seasons than in wet seasons.
Among the common materials used for mulching crops are straw, marsh hay, and leaves.
There is, however, a drawback to mulching that may not at first occur to the reader, viz.
At the Georgia Station mulching potatoes with pine straw was not found to be of sufficient value to recommend the practice.
There are soils in which the decay of the organic matter would have a more beneficial effect than the rotting upon the surface, it may be, but the mulching effect of the manure is valuable.
This is due in some degree to the roots, and probably more to the mulching effect of the vines during their growth.
It requires a warm and sheltered situation, and in spring likes a mulching of well-rotted manure.
A mulchingof manure is good for them, and will keep them warm.
The very objects of mulching do not appear to be properly appreciated by many persons.
He uses salt hay from the marshes; after plowing the ground in the spring, he applies the mulching in a heavy layer, which keeps down the weeds, preserves the moisture of the soil, and exerts a very happy influence upon the trees.
A combination of leaves and twigs, small branches or weeds, may be made to answer a very good purpose, for winter mulching especially.
Ward, of New Jersey, has practiced mulching rather extensively, and with excellent results.
They may be left undisturbed for a few seasons, but in that case a mulching of well-decayed manure in autumn would be beneficial.
It would be more harmful than useful to apply a mulching of manure in the depth of winter or early spring, as it would prevent the sun's rays from warming the roots.
One of the best ways, perhaps, to supply fresh food for the roots of the bulbous plants is to give the soil a good top-dressing or mulching of well-decayed manure in the early autumn months.
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.
Cultivation and mulching reduce the loss of water from soils] These results are so important that some indoor experiments should be made to furnish more proof.
Nothing could well look more happy under such treatment, and, once properly planted, they give no further trouble than a mulching of rotten manure in spring, when all the kinds have finished flowering.
If, therefore, such conditions do not exist, there should be a good dressing of well-rotted stable manure turned in, and a mulching given in early spring.
A good loam suits it to perfection, and no flower will better repay a good mulching of rotten manure.
Mulching preserves the soil in a moist, loose condition, and is a good preventive of mildew.
Mulching the whole bed, as soon as the plants are large enough, is in the highest degree beneficial, both in promoting growth, and keeping down weeds.
Not in the nourishment they afford the plants, but in the fact that mulching so covers the surface as to prevent rapid evaporation.
Mulching with clean, dry straw, or with charcoal, is a preventive of mildew.
This principle explains the benefit of mulching trees, plants, or vegetables.
Deep mulching is very beneficial; it preserves the moisture, and protects from excessive heat.
Every crop that can be mulched will 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.
Mulching vines is a great means of insuring a crop.
Now, in the third week of November, the most pressing work is the collecting of leaves for mulching and leaf-mould.
They are always difficult here, unless the season is unusually rainy; in dry summers, even with mulching and watering, I cannot keep them from drying up.
On November 5th our strawberry beds were all given a mulching with loose oat straw for a winter protection.
A Member: Have you ever tried mulching them with corn stalks?
If you were going to use it for mulching, I think it would be the thing, because it would be better for mulching than for feeding.
It is a question of mulching them too much or not mulching them.
Permanent mulching with vegetation actually does not reduce summertime moisture loss any better than mulching with dry soil, sometimes called "dust mulching.
Gardeners think mulching prevents moisture loss better than bare earth because under mulch the soil stays damp right to the surface.
I've tried mulching quite a few species while dry gardening and found little or no improvement in plant growth with most of them.
When all is finished give a good mulching of strawy manure, which should be dug in when March comes; and if there is a likelihood of frost, protect the branches with bracken or any light covering.
Protect fig-trees by mulching and cut back some of the over-luxuriant shoots.
Summer mulching is, of course, of special benefit.
The three species of the hickory and their varieties recommended for cultivation all thrive best in moist soils, but by occasional watering or thorough mulching they will succeed almost anywhere, especially in naturally dry locations.
In all dry climates and soils mulching should be considered an important operation, not to be omitted until the trees are from six to ten years old, and it may usually be continued a longer time with benefit.
Mulching will, of course, be beneficial in dry seasons, and especially if the stocks are set in ordinary well-drained soils.
The mulching material almost disappears by the middle of the next summer, indicating vigorous biological activity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mulching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
