Best and worst mulch for your garden

Thirty-one minute video. Roses are mentioned at the end (27:00 They're heavy feeders).

This video explains a ton of things you might not know. A ton.

For example, wood mulch starts out 400 to 1 carbon to nitrogen. When you put new new wood mulch on your garden the microorganisms are taking out nitrogen to work on the carbon and reduce it and that starves your plants of nitrogen. As the wood mulch ages over a year and a half the microorganisms increase and they take nitrogen from the air also, so the ratio goes down drastically leaving the best of both worlds; good carbon / nitrogen balance and dense microorganisms.

Watch how John Kohler draws out information from the owner of the mulch company. His enthusiasm causes his interviewee to expand on what John explains to his viewers. There is a good deal of repetition. The owner prevents John from wandering off track in his discussion, they're talking about mulch and not about compost, even as the mulch is composting.

If you want your garden to do fantastically as possible then you must give it the soil to thrive and you're not going to find that in any garden store because the garden soil is actually cultivated from various essential components and the components that are marketed, dyed mulch, for example, and mulch produced from damaged warehouse pallets can actually be harmful for your garden and your for health.

You know, Denver is a city run by hippie type liberals. This sort of thing is right up their alley. Shirley, we have something like this.

Sure enough. 

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