Thinking About Garden Mulches.

I don't give my lawns any weed or feed or use any chemicals on them.  They do get a tonic of my homemade garden nettle tea from time to time.


Some  times I remember when I worked on a golf course and I use to get a knife and cut out any rogue weeds.  Daisies are exempt from this of course.  Then every Monday I would put divots mix in the holes and flat them out with my feet.

Rosie the new Golden Retriever seems to like digging and chewing grass too.  Note to myself.  Repair where Rosie's been digging.

Any road.  The lawn clippings are chemical free so I use them for mulching my onions:

Here's my Japanese Winter onions covered in lawn clippings to mulch and feed and suppress any weeds.  I never have enough of the stuff.  Even the potatoes  get a covering  of grass over them.  I try to keep fresh clippings away from their stems.   It feeds them, helps retain moisture and suppresses the weeds.

I am thinking of using grass that  I strim around the new Phormium bed.  I might also try seaweed which I can can gather for free and it's only five minutes away by car.  I could buy a load of bark?

Do you have a favourite natural mulch that you use in the veg plot or on the borders?  Do you use grass?  Or is it only for medicinal purposes?😊