Sheet mulching

Looking to nourish your garden with sheet mulching? Learn all about this mulching technique that is guaranteed to make your plants thrive.

A step by step guide to DIY sheet mulching for foundation planting and gardening using cardboard to control weeds and mulch to enrich the soil.

Instead of digging new garden beds, we let worms turn the soil for us. Sheet mulch creates new garden beds and improves the soil too.

GAK! The amazing thick native grasses were making a mockery of my garden! What to do? I learned quickly that THIS was the answer. Read on . . .

Hard to believe, but fall is just around the corner. What's up in your garden? Got question? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University's Extension Service.

Everything you need to know about sheet mulching in your garden. A simple gardening technique to help you create a new garden. Fall is a great time to start sheet mulching so the area will have a chance to break down over the winter giving you perfectly nutrient-rich garden soil to start your garden again. Similar to composting sheet mulching can help you prepare your new garden.

The cardboard controversy – The Garden Professors™

This week's blog post - is all about the basics of sheet mulching. Have you heard about sheet mulching?

There are few things more wasteful and useless for a home than a lawn. After researching the myriad of ways to kill grass, we decided to go non-chemical and low-cost: sheet mulching. Cardboard and mulch for the win!

Benefits and Drawbacks of Cardboard Mulch It is acceptable to place cardboard under mulch as part of a gardening practice known as sheet mulching. This eco-friendly method can benefit your garden by suppressing weeds and improving soil health. However, there are also potential drawbacks to consider.…

These are not actual bed sheets, although if you had some old ones they could be recycled into the garden as well. But they would probab...

One of the quickest ways to create thriving healthy soil for a garden and to reduce the amount of lawn you have is to sheet mulch.

By layering 3-4 pages of newspaper on top of grass after outlining your new bed, water the newspaper well then lay 3-4 inches of mulch over the newspaper, after a few weeks, the grass will die without chemicals! You can then simply push aside the mulch to plant your planting directly through the paper, replace the mulch once the plant is in place!

What do you think about this? Cardboard has long been used as a resource for sheet mulching lawns, but was it really ever that good for the soil?

Sheet mulching doesn't have to be hard. We tell you how to di it step by step. #sheet #mulching #permaculture #gardening

Mulching is one of the best things you can do for a garden. It adds nutrients and helps retain moisture. Here’s how to make mulch right on site by growing plants that are — essentially — instant mulch.

As I've discussed recently on this blog, one way of rebuilding and deepening our relationship with the land is through the intentional act of regeneration. This regeneration work, in many cases, starts with the soil. The soil is the web of all life, and without soil, we cannot traditionally grow anything (I say "traditionally" because

Have you heard about sheet mulching? Do it now and you can reap the benefits of having a rich, complex soil structure in time for spring!

Sheet mulching courtesy of the Nat. History Museum of LA