What do you like to mulch with?

[spacetogrow]

One of the pepper forums I follow has had a lot of discussion about bark fines. Some people mentioned that some K-Mart stores carry them. The one near me has them.

[Crandrew]

K Mart is still a store? Huh go figure

Red,

I bought my onion seedlings at my farm store today. I bought the Texas 10-15 super sweet variety. They always produce very large, sweet; bulbs that seem to store well for me. Last year, I also grew a red variety called "Burgundy". They grew well and also produced large bulbs, but since I have been so happy with the 10-15 variety for so many years, I will only plant them this year. I did have a few small 10-15 and Burgundy bulbs left from last year that I pulled and allowed to dry for a couple of months. In October, I replanted all of those in one bed so I will have a lot of Reds. Most of them split into two or three bulbs after replanting so I separated and replanted them again.

The 10-15 is the same onion as the Vidalia, Noonday, and Maui; but different than the Walla Walla.

Ted

[DirtyDan]

paper feed sacks with straw over the top of the sacks.also like to put old manure down each side of the row the plants seem to love it.

[PaulF]

Because I work one day/week at a newspaper, I get the end rolls (leftovers) that are 36" wide and 20 or so feet long. They are still on the inner roll and are easy to spread out on the garden. I put down two layers of newspaper and then cover with straw about 6-8 inches deep. At the end of the season it all gets tilled into the soil. Great mulch and composts very nicely.

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by PaulF

Because I work one day/week at a newspaper, I get the end rolls (leftovers) that are 36" wide and 20 or so feet long. They are still on the inner roll and are easy to spread out on the garden. I put down two layers of newspaper and then cover with straw about 6-8 inches deep. At the end of the season it all gets tilled into the soil. Great mulch and composts very nicely.

Lucky dog!!!!!!! That's just what I need for my project!

[dice]

some of the blackest richest soil I had ever seen. It was about a foot thick and the result of decades of decomposing Maple leaves and branches.

I have done that before. I was out on this flat piece of land covered with
2nd and 3rd growth self-seeded fir trees, alder, and maple. (It had been
logged off a couple of times in the twentieth century and then sold
to developers for building lots.)

I was with someone that was doing a perc test
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_test )
after buying a few acres. There was a road cut
back into it from a county road with a bulldozer.

I am wandering around looking at the weeds, etc,
while we are waiting for the water to drain, when
I look down and see this foot-high mound of pure humus
at the edge of the bulldozer track. I borrowed a garbage
bag and filled it up.

I planted house plants that get moved outside in summer in it
when I got it home. They grew with extreme vigor. I do not know
what the pH was, probably around 6.