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Benefits of Using Garden Mulch in Melbourne

Author: Sandeep Kumar
by Sandeep Kumar
Posted: Jul 22, 2017

Different gardens have different shapes, sizes, and characteristics. From flower gardens to vegetable gardens, every garden has its own appeals. Flower gardens add aesthetic value to a property - from simple to elaborate. Vegetable gardens purpose is different. All gardens whether flower or vegetable are the direct beneficiaries of mulch using. There are many organizations who offer garden mulch in Melbourne but before adding mulch to your garden, you need to know what types of mulch are.

There are two types of Mulch:

  1. Organic
  2. Inorganic

Organic Mulch: Organic mulch or natural mulch are basically hardwood chips, grass clippings, pine straw, and crushed leaves.

Inorganic Mulch: Inorganic or synthetic mulch is crushed rock, pebbles, plastic, rubber mats or chips.

Organic mulch costs less compare to synthetic mulch. Organic or natural mulches deteriorate frequently compare to inorganic mulch.

Benefits of Using Mulch in Garden:

There are multiple advantages of using mulches in your garden. Apart from making your garden looking attractive and finished looking, the benefits are:

  • Ability to retain moisture in the soil
  • As organic mulches break down quite often that helps to enhance the health of the soil
  • Organic mulches maximize the fertility of the soil
  • It also helps to reduce winter injury
  • It takes care of weed control
  • Garden mulch protect your garden from erosion
  • It also protects mechanical injury from weed eaters and lawnmowers
  • There are some other types of mulch that include cypress, pinewood and cedar chips. These types of mulches do an excellent job to stop ticks, gnats, and fleas.

Choosing the best type of mulch also depends on multiple numbers of things that include personal choices and budgetary position. If you’re interested in improving the fertility of your soil, then you should go for organic mulch. If you’re a gardener and also wishing to keep the garden organic then you need to be careful in choosing natural mulch which contains dyes. Especially, if you’re a gardener with huge landscaped area then it is better to opt for synthetic mulch.

Many people believe mulch as a part to beautify the garden. But that should not be the case. You need to choose the right mulch and use it in a correct way. The method of application of using mulches is an integral aspect to ensure the longevity of your garden.
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