Most homeowners know that mulching is good for their gardens and landscaping, even if they don’t know why. Mulch is key to creating and maintaining a beautiful yard. Whether you choose organic or inorganic mulch, your landscaping will benefit from this added material this springtime.
Mulching helps protect against one of the biggest nuisances that pop up in your landscaping: weeds. Mulch creates a barrier between weeds in your soil and the sunlight that the weeds require to grow. By adding this barrier, you’re limiting the amount of sunlight that can reach the weeds, thereby controlling weed growth. Even if weeds do appear in your landscaping, not only will they be few and far between, but they’ll also be much easier to pull out and dispose of.
Another benefit to mulch is the temperature control it brings to your soil. When soil gets too hot, the roots of your flowers, grass, and shrubs will suffer. When the hottest months of summer arrive, it’ll help to have a mulch barrier to help control the amount of heat going to your yard’s root system. In the colder months, mulch helps prevent a process called frost-heaving, which pushes plant life out of their rooted positions in the ground.
Here at The Snow Down Landscaping, we recommend making mulching a part of your springtime landscaping. For the best mulching results that are sure to provide your yard with all the benefits of this material, leave the hard work to us. We’ll make sure your landscaping is evenly and properly mulched, so for a beautifully manicured yard, give us a call.