Standards Chair, Beverly Shutes, offered two mulching workshops in July on how to use quality organic mulch correctly to build your garden soil and prevent weeds. RIGC has received wood chips from several Roosevelt Island trees because VP Dave Nisthaus and Beverly recently asked the DEP site workers for the chipped remains of a cottonwood tree that had to be removed for the water tunnel work. As a result, we received a large, free pile of locally sourced ramial mulch.
This method of wood chip mulching is based on the no-till "Back to Eden" garden method, as taught by Paul Gautschi, a renowned arborist. (http://barbolian.com/permaculture-by-nature/) It both builds the soil and avoids too much soil disturbance. RIGC Landscape committee members have seen the benefits for our perimeter beds as plant growth and soil health have been enhanced. The need for weeding has been reduced in areas where we followed these instructions. The attached document below provides further instructions and careful reasoning for the specifics.
Other kinds of garden care methods include plants as mulch which espouse close plantings methods such as in our own Rose Garden by Marjorie Marcallino and in some of our award winning gardens by Julie Lipp and Elizabeth Bolden. This article and interview of Claudia West from Margaret Roach at A Way To Garden explains these ideas further.
This method of wood chip mulching is based on the no-till "Back to Eden" garden method, as taught by Paul Gautschi, a renowned arborist. (http://barbolian.com/permaculture-by-nature/) It both builds the soil and avoids too much soil disturbance. RIGC Landscape committee members have seen the benefits for our perimeter beds as plant growth and soil health have been enhanced. The need for weeding has been reduced in areas where we followed these instructions. The attached document below provides further instructions and careful reasoning for the specifics.
Other kinds of garden care methods include plants as mulch which espouse close plantings methods such as in our own Rose Garden by Marjorie Marcallino and in some of our award winning gardens by Julie Lipp and Elizabeth Bolden. This article and interview of Claudia West from Margaret Roach at A Way To Garden explains these ideas further.
| weed_prevention by BShutes docx |
Seasonal Planting Photo and Link to Plants are the Mulch by Margaret Roach
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