#strulch

[tenpolegardener]

October

Making the most of this good weather and getting stuck in to gardening.

I using this area for my pot plants; my tomato growing area.

This is my growing Christmas tree; need to repot.

I fill the pot with my compost mix. I have limited knowledge with a flowers. I enjoy the colours black and red.

In the pots I’m putting bulbs; black Lilly and mix of tulips red and black.

I cover the bulbs with coir.

Finally a layer of strulch.

Dahlias

[fox-glo-ves]

One load of rubbish away (all glass and a couple scraps of metal, and there's still more glass to go. Can you believe it??)

I mulched half this bed with strulch when I was putting beans in. Look at the difference in weeds. And it has prevented slugs where I've used it so I guess we're on a winner.

All weeded over and covered up til spring now. I strulced the back of the corn bed, too. I've just realised I left my trellis leaning on the neighbour's fence, I'll have to pop back over in a bit and move it.

A young man I startled whilst weeding.

[tenpolegardener]

I am finding this a useful mulching product. I need to get some more

[fionagardens]

These are drumstick primulas and the descendents of plants I grew from seed 15 years ago or more. They are a nice little burst of spring colour and interest. They used to self sow themselves all over the garden and I was too wet to dig them up, and one day discovered my big flowerbed was full of them - which is not that attractive in summer when the flowers have gone over and the leaves have gone sort of soggy and rotten. So I dug most of them up, and they do not self seed in the Strulch I use as mulch.

[fionagardens]

My pics will show that I cover all my flowerbeds in a thick layer of mulch called Strulch. It’s mineralised straw. (I don’t know what mineralised means either.) It traps in moisture, makes the soil easier to work, more crumbly, less crusty, and suppresses weeds. It is supposed to repel my arch enemies slugs and snails, but I have not seen any evidence of that. I can’t imagine gardening without it now. I barely have any weeds in my garden though and those I do have are easy to remove. I use Strulch because it is acid, and I have alkaline soil - the gardener is always trying to get to pH neutral. If you have acid soil, you could use mushroom compost instead, which is much cheaper. I buy Strulch by the pallet load every couple of years, but you can buy it from fancy-pants garden centres like Wisley and Burford. I confess it was not especially labour saving when I had my old dog, as she used to make a nest in it so the stuff stuck to her fur, and dropped all over the house. 

[stellastartsover]

My current crush #perfectlywhite #landscaping #smallbutstrong #shadeplant #gooutside #bloomingmarvellousgardens #brunneramacrophyllabettybowring #strulch (at Stoke d'Abernon)

[stellastartsover]

#diamondintherough💎 a little treasure on a gloomy day #prismatic #glass in the #strulch (at Stoke d'Abernon)

[stellastartsover]

That little house looks as surprised 😲 as I was to find it! This is by far the biggest garden I've ever worked in and yet here is the 1st #shard of kitchen #pottery I have encountered #twilightzone #usuallyhaveabucketfulbynow #missingpieces #amievenintheuk #strulch #iseefaces (at Stoke d'Abernon)