Sentences with phrase «garden mulch»

From shed working in fingerless gloves, through peeing on my garden mulch, to cooking pasta in a frying pan and cutting back on dairy, I do make an effort to reduce my personal environmental impact.

In fact, from the green benefits of public urination, through a public urinal that feeds plants with pee, to peeing on my garden mulch for fertilizer, some have argued I have a mild obsession with all things pee - related.

The worms you find in your garden mulch are not the same worms that cause heartworm disease in pets.

Lately, some landscapers have used it as an environmentally friendly garden mulch.

Some reports have suggested that eggs can be found in garden mulch that has been obtained near such areas.

It is mostly burnt or used as garden mulch.

Not exact matches

Daphne Gould of Boston reports excellent results with a mixture of two parts compost, one part perlite, and one part garden soil, mulched with grass clippings.

Two weeks before transplanting seedlings into the garden, cover the rows with clear plastic mulch to warm the soil.

The shells are utilized for filler in some animal feed and also for mulch in gardens.

Shredding should only be used for large, hard materials such as tree branches, which can be used as mulch in the flower garden.

Plan your garden out for maximum access for harvesting, weeding (for shame — use plastic mulch to eliminate them), and for the viewing pleasure of your envious friends.

When I first set up my garden in Asheville, a knowledgeable woman in the local community came over and sort of flippantly said, «You need to put mulch on top of your beds — you're wasting water!»

It's called IRT Mulch (for Infra - Red Transmitting) and it is available from mail order companies and garden shops.

A wide variety of mulches has been used with peppers, and determining the one that is right for the home garden depends upon a number of factors, including climate, decomposition of the mulch, and the use of colored mulches to increase yield.

Steve and I spent the day blissfully prepping our garden beds, pruning the fruit trees, mulching the berries.

There are many reasons to add mulch to your garden beds, around trees and just about anywhere else.

We keep a no - till garden and with the help of a heavy layer of wood chip mulch we have healthy plants, water less, and do practically no weeding (serious!).

Adding mulch to the garden, feeding the animals, stacking wood for next year's fires and on and on.

After spray - painting the garden's layout on the ground, eight students then learned how to mulch, plant trees and prepare flower beds on Thursday and Saturday.

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

You can then save the shredded leaves to make leaf mulch for a variety of things in the spring, like feeding your garden.

During the first class «The Fundamentals of Home Gardening,» instructor Daryl Beyers discussed feeding, mulching, planting, pruning, watering, and weeding.

Onondaga County's program that turns food waste into the compost and mulch we use in our gardens is expanding.

In agriculture and gardening, mulch is a protective cover placed over the soil, primarily to modify the effects of the local climate.

This is good, because the debris acts like mulch on a garden.

Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except — it's alive.

I'm prepping my own garden right now, with two new raised beds, a better compost bin, nets for the rasberries, and 8 inches of mulch all around.

Grass clippings can either be fresh or dried, either way, it makes an incredible organic mulch which is great for your garden.

Leave 3 foot aisles between garden beds and mulch them well for weed control.

and then am going to attempt to get out in the gardens and do some mulching.

I love Eat Sleep Be's Tutorial on How to Start a Backyard Garden — I can see why I always get so many weeds in my home's raised gardens... I don't use enough mulch!

This past weekend was spent fall gardening, new mulch and hyacinth bulbs were put out.

Increasingly, schools have their own gardens, where students learn such key skills as mulching (laying materials such as straw on soil to protect it) and vermicomposting (using worms to convert waste to fertilizer).

This resource includes the following: 81 Spring words with illustrations (3 per page) 2 blank templates for your customization 1 Word wall Label (8.5 x 11) 2 Word wall Labels (4.3 x 11) colored and black»n white 1 blank Word wall Label for your customization The words include the following: April apple blossom awake baseball bike birds birth bloom blossom bright bunny butterfly breeze buds calf caterpillar cherry blossom chick chirp colors daffodils daisy duck duckling Easter eggs fawn field flowers frog fun furrow galoshes garden grass earth hat hatchling heat hoe ice - cream kite jacket ladybug lamb lemonade March May meadow mud mulch nest outdoor picnic rain rainbow raincoat robin roller skates sap sapling seed seeding shoot showers sky smell smile spade spring sprout sun thunder tulip umbrella warm water watering can worm yard (C) Nicole Hernandez A Teacher's Idea

Conserve water and «mulch» your garden plants.

Mulching garden plants, covering with wood chippings or leaf mould reduces the need for watering as they'll retain moisture for longer.

Compost, cocoa - based mulches, pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers and other garden chemicals can all cause problems for your pets.

Garden Fertilizers — some contain iron or insecticides or other compounds that can be dangerous to your pets.Coca Bean Mulch — The rich chocolate smell is enough to entice dogs.

Cats are digging in my garden Explanation: It is a cat's natural instinct to dig and deposit in soft or loose soil, moss, mulch, or sand.

Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores, contains a lethal ingredient called «Theobromine».

Made from spent cocoa beans used in chocolate production, cocoa bean mulch is organic, deters slugs and snails, and gives a garden an appealing chocolate smell.

Other aversion deterrents are usually scent - based — some folks have had success keeping cats away from garden beds with things like citrus peels and eucalyptus, and recently I've seen people using mulch as a deterrent.

The doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden.

She loves gardening, often lifting bags and bags of mulch and soil, decorating their home, watching the sunsets on the beach with her husband Jim and spending lots of time with her adored grandchildren.

Cocoa bean mulch is made from cocoa shells and it is a very popular gardening product.

Adding pinecones or large bark mulch to garden areas will also deter cats from spraying.

• To prevent dogs from digging up bulbs or garden areas, place chicken wire (or wire mesh with openings large enough to allow plants to grow through) on the ground, anchor it with rocks and cover with mulch.

Sometimes it is in our neighbors mulch, under their deck, on their patio furniture or in their well tended vegetable or flower gardens.

We know that accidents can and will happen, whether your cat gets a taste of your holiday chocolate or your dog is digging through your garden and ingests some cocoa mulch.

They removed truckloads of invasive plants, cleared overgrowth in the historic Alcatraz garden terraces, spread truckloads of mulch and soil for landscaping and restoration projects, replaced stair treads and rehabbed the Fort Funston sand ladder, and more!