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**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · 3d

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

So what are people's thoughts on using wood chips for weed suppression? I've heard that fungal decomposition sucks nitrogen from the surrounding soil, plus the nooks and crannies can provide ideal habitat for plant-nibbling pillbugs. (This is not my plot.) #CommunityGarden #garden #gardening #weeds #mulch #fungi #woodchips #nitrogen #pillbugs #woodlice #allotment

Plot at a community garden that is totally covered in several inches of wood chips.

**JuanPa Agroecología** @HorcaDobleMango@kolektiva.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

JuanPa Agroecología @HorcaDobleMango@kolektiva.social

#permacultura en secano #legumbres #huerta #abono #acolchado #mulch #garden #permaculture

Pantallazo cogido de mi story de Instagram, tres fotos, la superior entre huertas y aromáticas hay dos bancales con habas enormes, en la segunda foto uno de los bancales ha sido segado a ras, las plantas cortadas están en el pasillo entre bancales y en el bancal se pueden intuir montones de palitos con esquejes muchos brotando. En la tercera foto se ve una planta de haba arrancada (sin querer) y no segada en la q se pueden ver todos sus nódulos llenos de Nitrógeno. Al fondo dos olivos. Dos textos uno dice hola habas adiós habas y el otro dice Papá tranquilo quedan muchas habas en la finca y los pimientos de verano tb necesitan Nitrógeno.

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Mar 26

Mar 26

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

The mustard green manure in the allotment greenhouse has been doing well in the spring sunshine. #NoDig #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

A greenhouse with mustard green manure growing well in the beds. Feeding the soil biology. These will be chopped and dropped before they flower. Some komatsuna with yellow flowers will be harvested next visit. Four green bins are in the central pathway and contain harvested rainwater.

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Mar 25

Mar 25

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

One compost heap has had its first turn at last. It’s quite well broken down already.

The compost in the yellow and blue grab bags has been turned three times since I stopped adding material to it.

It was turned before Christmas, at the end of January and now. #Compost #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment

A compost heap after its first turn is up against the far corner of a u shaped compost bay made of four pallets. It is breaking down well from material that’s been added since the beginning of February. It was turned from one side of the compost bay to the other. The compost that was in that bay has been turned into two yellow and blue coloured ton grab bags stacked on top of each other. The grab bag contents will be turned into the now empty compost bay. The contents of these were collected from mid November to the week before Christmas. A pallet is leaning against a hűgel that is out of sight behind it. This pallet will be moved to once again be the dividing wall between the two compost piles. Another pallet is still tied in place as the front of the near side of the compost bay.

**VegPlotter** @vegplotter@mastodon.world · Mar 24

Mar 24

VegPlotter @vegplotter@mastodon.world

Sawdust is an excellent mulch! Apply a 2.5 cm (1 in) layer on moist soil to reduce evaporation, retain moisture, and suppress annual weeds. It also prevents weed seeds from germinating. Just ensure it’s well-aged or add nitrogen to prevent nutrient deficiency in the short term. #GardeningTips #Mulch

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Mar 20

Mar 20

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

Plot progress. The front half is almost ready for sowing and planting up from next month onwards.

A Jostaberry now occupies the space the mass of wild brambles used to.
#NoDig #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #Mulch #Allotment

No dig gardening beds, some in the process of being made, run down the length of an allotment plot either side of a wood chip central path. Bags of collected wood chip are lying on cardboard with some rolls of wire mesh which will be used to protect a bed from curious muntjac. A couple of reclaimed water tanks will be sunk into the space in between the no dig beds for their new life as ponds.

A two year old Jostaberry plant taken from a cutting freshly transplanted and mulched with wood chip in an allotment bed. Some cardboard is placed as weed suppressant where a pathway will be in between the Jostaberry and a nettle patch. Wild brambles have been trained along a post and wire fence. Beyond that is a footpath and a re-laid hedge of a nature reserve. An elderberry is growing to the left surrounded with wood chip mulch.

**๒๏₪ STIL NOTDED** @N0ty3p@infosec.exchange · Mar 19 *

Mar 19 *

๒๏₪ STIL NOTDED @N0ty3p@infosec.exchange

Mulching down. It’s dirty work. I’d love to hire someone, but I’ve only had one person do it right, and Mario is 960 miles away

Jacob is moving piles along the slope and I’m doing.

How to do it wrong? Blanket mulching that touches the trunk or covers exposed root base. The mulch holds moisture (this is good), but causes the plant to rot where it touches.

Thick #mulch can become a water barrier, starving the plant. And while it’s a great weed retardant, it also blocks emerging wildflower seeds and bulbs.

Worst mulch EVER is this bizarre “volcano” trend where people build up a 3’ cinder cone around tree trunks. Sometimes with ROCKS

Quality material is important. The goal is to provide something that slowly breaks down and feeds the soil. I’d prefer not buying mulch due to potential microplastic and weed contamination, but it’s more important to stop the field grass from choking out saplings.

Things that should never touch your soil: landscape fabric (plastic), painted or treated wood chips, and used tires. Bonus points for painted uses tires

#garden

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**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 10

Mar 10

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

Thick plastic sheeting breaks down, too. And the plot owners at my community garden rarely bother to pick up the hundreds of little pieces that are left ... because they cover it all up with a fresh layer of plastic. #garden #gardening #plastic #mulch #weeds #vegetables

Small garden plot fully covered with black plastic sheeting except for several dozen small holes that contain senesced plant stems. Most of the space was never even planted.

A piece of partially buried black plastic that is ripped in multiple locations and has curled, weathered edges.

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 10

Mar 10

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

If anyone is considering polypropylene landscaping fabric for their vegetable garden, here's a visual of what happens. After just one season it begins to disintegrate, and shreds will be blown onto neighboring plots where they'll continue to break down into ever smaller pieces of plastic. #garden #gardening #weeds #weeding #plastic #mulch #microplastics #CommunityGarden #VegetableGardening

Section of a garden that was covered with porous plastic mulch, with large sections missing, exposing the soil beneath.

**Mandy Watson** @MandyCanUDigIt@mastodon.social · Mar 6 *

Mar 6 *

Mandy Watson @MandyCanUDigIt@mastodon.social

Welcome to Little Big Compost, a compressed peat-free growing medium - no more heaving heavy sacks back from the garden centre! Available in many formulations.

#gardening #peatfree #compost #coir #houseplants #cacti #citrus #mulch

https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2025/03/06/little-big-compost-no-more-heaving-around-heavy-bags/

Little Big Compost coir mulch in a brown and black packet

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Mar 2

Mar 2

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

A little more progress on the plot. The hedge clearings have been moved and added to a hűgel bed nearer the shed.

Another no dig bed is in the process of being made in its place, just in front of the wild brambles. #NoDig #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Allotment #Gardening

No dig beds of layers of cardboard with organic matter over the top. The front bed is mixed bough stable manure compost and leaf litter. A bed being made behind it has cardboard down and part composted leaf mould collected from footpaths. Bags of wood chip are being used to weight down the cardboard that’s not yet covered with any organic matter.

**B's wild, wild world** @BsCreativeLife@mstdn.social · Mar 2 *

Mar 2 *

B's wild, wild world @BsCreativeLife@mstdn.social

Saw it in the wild today, so here's your annual reminder that volcano mulching is baddddd.... lay it out like a leaf layer in the woods.
Mounding increases the chances of root binding and rot forming from moisture on areas that aren't usually kept wet.

#Gardening #Mulch
@gardening
@plants

A tree with an orange and red colored volcano scribbled over the bottom portion of the trunk. The word "NO!" Is written over the middle of the photo in large, yellow, capital letters.

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Mar 1

Mar 1

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

A wood chip pile is gradually being moved. This is being used on pathways and garden beds and on the allotments. #Mulch #Compost #NoDig #Gardening

A small pile of wood chip on a driveway. The outside of it has a covering of frost. A small flower border has various daffodils’ foliage on display but these are not yet in flower. Some bags of wood chip are alongside the pile ready to be moved elsewhere.

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Feb 23

Feb 23

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

These now to then photos are about three months apart.

November to February in our temperate UK winter climate.

The overgrowth is now being turned into compost.

An allotment plot with a dried grass mulched raspberry bed in the front, leaf mould mulch behind. Soil excavated from under the central path is mulching the beds either side. The only bought compost is the darker stuff on the right. Every other mulch material has been found for free. A orangey yellow hawthorn wood chip pathway runs down the length of the plot. Most of the no dig beds have been started now. There is a pile of shrub wood on the right with some untamed brambles behind. A boundary hedge runs down the right hand side of the plot. An old wooden shed sits at the bottom of the plot.

First impressions of an allotment plot in mid November. It’s overgrown with some raspberry canes visible amongst the grasses and brambles beyond. A hedge on the right is still in leaf as are the background trees in the distance. An old wooden shed with a dark window is just visible at the bottom end of the plot.

#Gardening #GrowYourOwn #NoDig

**AI6YR Ben** @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · Feb 13 *

Feb 13 *

AI6YR Ben @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

Hmm, I wonder how many hundred (thousand?) gallons of absorbent capacity the thick layer of oak mulch in my backyard from this year has.

(Quite happy to have gotten that full load of shredded oak this year again! Hoping the extra retained moisture keeps the plants happy!) #gardening #rain #mulch

**Ms. Que Banh** @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · Jan 20

Jan 20

Ms. Que Banh @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party

#Composting #collage.
Compost textures in various stages of #decomposition.

A photos collage with multiple perspectives of composting scenes. The top left includes a cylindrical wire frame filled with layered decomposing materials, primarily brown leaves, grass cuttings & twigs. The top right features a close-up of organic compost with visible eggshell fragments, vegetable peels & dark soil. The bottom left shows a neatly contained pile of leaves mulch in raised garden bed, while the bottom right captures a larger compost mound, rich in texture, with both light & dark organic matter, surrounded by ferns & other foliage.

#CompostSoil #HealthySoil #Soil

**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Jan 14

Jan 14

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

A freshly turned compost heap. #Compost #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #GrowYourOwn

Pallets form a u shaped compost bay in front of an old shed with three windows. A compost heap has been turned into the left hand corner of the bay. An upturned metal wheelbarrow leans against a bag of wood shavings and sawdust in the other corner. Branches of an elder are leaning over into the space. A neighbours green poly tunnel is in the background.

**Daniel Ares** @daniel@federation.network · Jan 14

Jan 14

Daniel Ares @daniel@federation.network

So is #DivestOS and their apps officially dead now? There doesn't seem to be any clear info on their website. Many people will probably unknowingly continue to use #Mulch or #Mull without any in-app notification. #Fdroid

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**knizer** @knizer@toot.boston · Jan 10 *

Jan 10 *

knizer @knizer@toot.boston

Saturday 11-3 #NewburyMA - bring your expired festive tree to the farm and huck it in the chipper - take home some #mulch - $15 per carload, there's snacks and a manor tour! This replaces the less eco-friendly and less #sustainable previous annual event of a tree bonfire.

https://my.historicnewengland.org/20312/chipfest #massachusetts
#BostonWeekend 11/x

my.historicnewengland.orgChristmas Tree Chipfest | Historic New England