What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. Kevin here with

the O.G. Margaret Roach, lifelong organic gardener and founder of A Way to Garden. The website, the podcast, the newly re-released book, which is right in front of me right now. It's an amazing book and we're giving away one copy to a podcast listener. So if you'd like to enter that you can review the podcast on iTunes

and then just go ahead and write away to Garden after your review so I know that you entered.

But that is it and today we are going to be talking about mulch which is a topic that I think

even just the sound of the word can sometimes kind of feel a little bleh to me.

I don't know about you Margaret but it just it has that phonetic sound that just doesn't

inspire a lot of excitement in my in my brain at least but it's a very important piece to the

organic gardener's life and so what I thought we could do and

the title is is very apt here mulch wisdom is perhaps drop a little bit of that mulch

wisdom on on some readers here.

Well, you know, the smartest thing I did when I started gardening like 40 years ago was become a sort of mulch queen like I really got into mulching and I never used those big what I call sort of baked potato

mulch sized chips you know the things in bags that are these horrible things that never degrade or whatever

Right from the beginning because I'm in an agricultural area

where there was the opportunity to get a composted,

somewhat finer texture, dark colored mulch.

You could use rotted leaves,

you know, shredded rotted leaves

or you could use, in my case it's composted stable bedding

is what it is.

It's like material wood and straw and

stuff that's been used by animals you know in their stalls and then mucked out

and composted hot and then resold as mulch and so something that's going to

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