As far as maintaining a good garden is concerned there is no excuse for not mulching your garden and why not when there are so many benefits and it is such a simple sustainable thing to do. First of all let us discuss what mulch is, it is a material that is used to spread over the soil surface to create a permeable layer where air, water and nutrient can still pass through. Mulches can be of organic things like leaves, bark or wood chips and it can be inorganic like pebbles, gravels and coarse sand and now the question is why we should use mulch? Because it helps to retain moisture in the soil, it keeps weed growth down, it protects the soil preventing wind or water erosion, it keeps the soil temperature stable and mulching has got be one of the easiest and the most cost effective ways to improve your garden. The next thing is how to calculate how much mulch is required for your garden. Remember one cubic meter of mulch will cover 20 square meters of soil when you spread it 5 cm thick.

Bark Mulch, Burnaby and Top Soil Burnaby are some of the soil mulches and the Bark Mulch delivery can be made at the site itself. Before you spread your mulch pull out the big weeds, the smaller ones would be smothered by mulch and then sprinkle around a good quality fertilizer. When you are using very fresh mulch it will have very high carbon content and it would seep away nitrogen from the topsoil, so before mulching organically derived nitrogen fertilizer should be used like poultry manure. Another thing is whether to lay down mat under before mulch or not. When organic material is used as mulch, one of the reasons for that is, it breaks and adds organic matter and nutrients to go down to the soil and if we use a synthetic barrier between mulch and soil, then the nutrients and all that material is never going to make it down to the soil. On the other hand we should always use a synthetic mat while using inorganic mulch like pebbles and gravels, but make sure to use a proper permeable material so that water, air and nutrients could move through. Non permeable material like Plastics should never be used because it would suffocate the soil. And if there is a weight problem newspaper can be used. Over a period of a few months the paper breaks and will add organic matter to the soil. The Bark Mulch Burnaby should not touch trunks or the stem of the plant if it does it would attract fungus and would damage the plant, but it is not an issue with inorganic mulch like pebbles and gravels. Mulching would make it easier to water and decorate your garden. Top Soil Burnaby and Bark Mulch delivery are just a call away when you have planned to recreate your garden. These are a cost effective solution to all your garden problems.