Why You Should Mulch Your Garden With Pine Bark: It's Hard to Argue With These Benefits
Mulching the garden is one of the mandatory actions that every owner of a garden plot, without exception, should perform.
An expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh believes that this need is caused not only by aesthetics, but also by the beneficial properties that mulch has.
Since gardeners most often use pine bark for this purpose, let's talk about the advantages of this type of mulching.
So, mulch has the ability to affect the growth of weeds. Of course, you shouldn't count on getting rid of weeds completely, but their growth will be significantly limited.
Mulching will help you retain moisture in the soil, thus having a beneficial effect on the crops growing in your garden. And you will have to water the plantings much less often.
Mulch can hardly be called useless even in winter – it partially reduces soil freezing, protecting plant roots.
In summer, such a “shield” of pine bark reduces the heating of the soil, and along with it, the root system.
Many gardeners are confident that mulch has nutritional properties, so you will be able to fertilize plants naturally at the same time.
Finally, bark, which is used as mulch, can protect the soil and roots from small pests and pathogens.
