Sentences with phrase «living mulch»

Leaf lettuce Growing leaf lettuce (and other leafy greens) in the same container as my tomatoes acts as a living mulch which helps keep the soil cooler, and reduces the chances of spreading diseases from water and soil splashing on the leaves.

Carrots: Growing carrots around peppers can help to shade out some of the weeds, providing a living mulch, and are a great way to maximize space in the garden.

Use fast - growing lettuces and radishes as a living mulch around slow - growing plants like tomatoes and cabbages.

«Living mulch is the best thing since sliced bread,» Hill says.

«We chose white clover particularly to use as living mulch because it has the capability to regrow and reestablish itself when the conditions are right, and to perpetuate itself from year to year,» says Nicholas Hill, lead researcher.

«Living mulch builds profits, soil: Clover - corn combo benefits corn, soil, business.»

However, this process isn't perfect and often the living mulch fails to fully re-establish.

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

The living mulch system uses a perennial plant between rows of crops.

While the corn grows, there is then clover between the rows serving as living mulch.

The researchers found the living mulch system does produce a little less corn than more conventional systems.

Not exact matches

As if to underscore that point our very old yet vigorous rhubarb plant in the backyard is doing its normal late - January thing, bursting through its own mulch with hot pink nubs of new life.

But since she lost her friend Anab there is no one to lie down with at night, no one to divulge her secrets to; instead they put down roots in her mind and grow in the mulch of her confused life.

Fleas live in moist, shady areas, including lawn thatch, mulch, leaf litter, woodpiles, crawl spaces and beneath porches or decks.

Puppies are notorious for chewing on other types of mulch, which may cause a gastro - intestinal blockage requiring surgery to save a pup's life.

And if the tree itself is used in its post-Christmas life for some green use — our Village has them ground for mulch, just as they do with branches from annual pruning.

By building raised beds which are NEVER walked on, heavily mulched and fed by top dressings of large amounts of organic matter, proponents of no - dig gardening say it protects vital soil life including worms, microbes and mychorrizal fungi which all play a part in maintaining soil fertility.

Another issue that I believe I saw mentioned already as well is how the pics jump back and forth exterior to living room to kitchen back to liv room back to kichen to bath back to kitchen back to bath - get them in some sort of order and FOR SURE ditch ALL of the exterior pics that show the rather poor yard condition OR spend a few bucks and do a little landscaping, a little money in mulch, plants, etc can go a long way there too!