Mulch your plants – indoors and outdoors.

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Eco-Tip

Topics: Water and marine environment

This page was archived on 21 Apr 2015 with reason: Content not regularly updated

It will keep weeds away; protect the plants by keeping the soil cool; decrease evaporation and reduce soil compaction. Be creative and use materials like: pebbles, bark chippings, gravel, cocoa shells, decorative pine cones, marbles, broken crockery, grass clippings or leaf mould. But avoid mulching too close to the stems to avoid the plant rotting in winter.