11 Amazing Mulch Materials for Permaculture Gardening

🍃Good Day. Thank you for your great tips and advice. I saw a video with your Jaime Oliver using stinging nettle as a side dish...sauteed, plentiful where you are. In the caribbean, I use grass and plant clippings, compost or growing running plants like sweet potatoes or pumpkin around tall stemmed plants. Have a great day...

Is there no problem with salt on seaweed?

Have you tried growing mushrooms and using the remaining subtrate for mulch? Adding fungi to a permaculture set-up would be very informative content.

Can you use bramble chips the same as ramial chips?

I chop leaves up with the mower and mulch my veggies with them. The worms love the leave layer and break it down over the course of the summer.

Ramial chipped wood ? Never heard of it before, so had to Google it. Basically wood chips made from the small branches of deciduous trees.

I’ve just strimmed all the grass that’s grown around fruit bushes on an allotment I’ve recently taken on and I’m leaving the cuttings where they are.

Leaves for the win! The mold will attract the local fungi and bacteria and increase soil fertility quickly. Plus, leaves contain many of the micronutrients that are needed by plants and hard for shallow rooted plants to reach. Trees, with their deep roots, can get at minerals deep in the ground. Nice video, Huw.

Great ideas here. I'm worried about the salt on local seaweed. Do others put it straight on the garden as a mulch or rinse it first? I'll be putting it round Tomatoes and other veg. Thank you for any feedback :)

How about sawdust?

I just wanted to thank you for being so good at both inspiring and teaching!

I've been developing our garden for about 5 years now, and mostly loved it, but I've also sometimes gotten into a bit of a despair when things didn't go as I'd hoped. But nowadays -whenever I'm feeling a little lost or overwhelmed with regard to the garden, I watch 1 or 2 of your videos, and by the end of it, my hands are usually itching to just get outside and muck around in the garden! Your approach has really shifted my focus from "chores" and "having to follow rules" towards, just spending time with your garden, and reacting to what you see happening. It is so satisfying to see your garden as your ally, rather than something that is working against you. So thank you for that!

A word of caution about manure: I would definitely make sure to properly compost the manure before using it as mulch and also make sure that animals have not been fed tons of minerals and check what chemicals they've been given. Salts from manure build up and ultimately exarcerbate compaction problems if you have them. More salts, more compaction.

Un saludo desde cuba , y mis subtitulos en español ? Este canal me gusta mucho

Really helpful, thank you. Comfrey grows in abundance on my allotment site, so I'll definitely be making the most of it!

Great video as always! Could you tell me which kind of comfrey is that?

Thanks so much. I enjoy watching your videos very inspiring. I use my grass for mulching. So good and free

Hi Huw. As usual an inspiration😉 I’ve heard (can’t remember where) that you can use leaf mulch as a seeding media. Do you have any experience with sowing in leaf mulch? If yes, would you recommend it?

In my Polly tunnel now I use concrete board for my grow beds surrounded by slate chippings. Works a treat. Since had no bug problems. 🙌

I'm hearing 'ramuel ' chips. I've never heard the word. Am I hearing it correctly?

I have a gorgeous Weymouth Pine or something much like it that large amounts of needles every year. So far I've just used it around the blueberry bushes, but this year I'm considering growing potatoes in it. I've been sick for months, so I'll rather plant late than not at all. It's also an early variety. Thank you for a great video!

regarding slugs and snails A researcher at Oxford if I remember correctly, found slugs and especially snails have a very strong homing instinct so 30 m may not be far enough..Ducks do a better job and give a lovely crop of eggs into the bargain

A big thank you to you and your team for the great content!
So my burning question: whould you use leaves of a walnut tree as a mulch for vegetabe beds - or do you think its not a good idea?

Do you wash the seaweed because of the salt?

I have read that you have to take mulch off the ground and replace it to prevent fungus growth. That feels labor intensive and like it would rob the benefits of the broken down mulch. Do you remove your mulch? Thank you for the video -- amazing ideas!

Huw, your wealth of knowledge and clear, concise delivery is so appreciated. Thank you!

How come you need to break the leaves down around annuals as opposed to perennials?

Very interesting, I'm always learning new things from your channel. Thank you!

What are the blue flowers in the manure segment..near the gooseberry I think?

I have 3 or 4 lovage plants. I take a cutting for dried herbs and the rest I chop and drop around my fruit trees as mulch in May. It regrows in time for the swallow tail butterflies to lay their eggs and then it is food for these beautiful pollinators.

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Thank you 😊

Hi Huw, can you please share your experience with planting in "gutters". I see you have things planted in the "gutter" on the fence and I plan to do the same, as I have an abundance of 21m of fence 😅 but am hesitant how the watering would look like.

Good job!🙂

Hi, with the seaweed shouldnt we rinse it off and dry it out first? thanks so much

What is your opinion on using pine cones as mulch?

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Inviting people to tell their true stories and experience of using raw sheep wool in the garden. My neighbour dropped off 24 pelts of wool freshly shawn intending to use as suggested as a mulch, repress weeds and additive to compost. It’s full of tics, smelly, oily and overwhelming. My other sheep farming neighbour said wool never breaks down evidence by him burying a pile 6 years ago and it has not changed at all. Most farmers bury it as it has little value now sadly. It doesn’t burn so that’s not an option to any failed venture. My husband freaked out and I still have a big pile of wool fleece in my driveway wondering what to do with it. I think of it as my ‘shame pile’. Anyone have some real life experience of raw wool in gardening? Any recommendations? 😞

I've found that a woodchip mulch has stopped my gooseberry bushes from getting bitten by sawfly as they can't reproduce due to the mulch.

Hi Huw, how would you advise to mulch with fresh wool? In the video it looked like it was mixed with something else? Thanks

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NiCe

I live near the river Humber so collect seaweed and use it as mulch

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i had slugs happily living under and crawling over natural sheeps fleece

Hello from Vietnam! Just want to know your thoughts about husks (particularly rice husks as we've got plenty of them here in Vietnam). Thanks for all the lovely videos!

Great videography. Kudos to the team on that.

Thank you very much for the valuable information

Very well thank you so much

Hi @Huw Richards Can I use dry bamboo leaves as mulch for my vegie garden? I have plenty of bamboo leaves

Hi Huw, I live in a place which has cows to mow the lawns, so I don’t have grass clippings. Though I do have access to long grass which I can cut - would it have the same properties as grass clippings / would long cut grass be okay to use as mulch?