Not all Mulch is Created Equal
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Mulch is mulch, right? Wrong. Pete Kanaris of Green Dreams shares his favorite types of mulch and how to use them.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:15.7 | podcast. Kevin here and I'm joined again by Pete Canaris of Green Dreams, |
| 0:20.0 | edible landscaper, permaculturist from Florida. |
| 0:22.6 | He's got a great YouTube channel, great on Instagram. |
| 0:25.0 | And as you've heard on the podcast, |
| 0:27.5 | just full of amazing information, |
| 0:29.8 | something caught my ear a couple episodes ago, |
| 0:32.2 | Pete, when you're saying your |
| 0:33.5 | mentor Jim Kobleski he will two foot deep mulch to get rid of I believe you |
| 0:39.6 | called a torpedo grass or tornado grass right? Yeah torpedo grass or tornado grass, right? |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, so I've been battling Bermuda over here |
| 0:47.6 | and I would imagine they propagate themselves |
| 0:50.4 | in a somewhat similar way being a grass and I've actually heard similar things where you |
| 0:55.2 | know you go two inches deep sorry two feet deep or more to starve it out of start the rhizomes of |
| 1:01.4 | energy and then at that point you can |
| 1:03.3 | basically smother them out it just takes a long time but I'm curious the title today's |
| 1:08.9 | episode is not all mulches created equals so which mulches are our worst which mulches are better what's the |
| 1:16.1 | what's the Pete Canaris hierarchy here so well cab thanks again for having me on the show |
| 1:21.9 | it's been a blast. |
| 1:23.0 | Thanks for all the awesome work you do. |
| 1:25.0 | So not all multis created equal. |
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