The Benefits of Using Organic Mulch in Your Gardens

Organic Mulching, when done properly can provide many benefits to your organic gardens.
It retains moisture in the soil, guards the soil from extreme changes in temperatures that can effect plant growth and helps to improve the soil structure in your garden.
A three to six inch layer of mulch alone will help to prevent against soil compaction and erosion from heavy rains.
When organic mulch breaks down, decomposes, it adds what is known as "organic matter" to the soil.
These organics is what supplies fuel to the soil food web and creates an environment to support the natural organisms that exist in soil.
This vast community of life that naturally exists is what works the soil to improve it's structure, along with converting nutrients that exist naturally in soil to allow plant life to benefit from.
These few of the many hidden benefits that we can't see is what create a healthy environment for plant life to grow and produce yielding crops.
Organic methods of gardening ad lawncare will not only provide healthier plants, it will also prevent pollution of the air we breath and the water we drink.
Mulching is commonly know to be for suppression of weeds, it does a lot more that that as you can see.
Along with the ability to improve soil conditions, it goes farther into also preventing plant disease by keeping disease-carrying spores from splashing onto plants from watering or rainfall.
There are many different methods of mulching your plants, from organic to inorganic.
The inorganic mulches include material like plastic, these can do more harm than good.
Covering the soil with a sheet of plastic can warm the soil to temperatures that can not only harm or kill your plants, these temperatures can also harm, if not kill the naturally organisms that live in it soil naturally and work hard for you to improve it's structure.
Organic mulches are classified as anything that was once living, like wood chips, straw, composted yard and garden debris.
This organic material eventually breaks down and become incorporated into the soil, supplying fuel to the soil food web to produce nutrients for plant life to benefit from.
Not only are organic mulches better, they are cheaper and can be produced from organic material that already exists in your everyday life that you would normally throw away.