S15 E1: Mulching Magic: Unlocking the Secrets to a Thriving Garden

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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With gardening scaled back due to some timing issues with the milk cows, the spotlight is on the lifesaving benefits of mulch, especially as we brace for an impending drought. Learn how mulch can transform your garden by saving time, reducing weeds, and conserving precious water. Get ready for a treasure trove of practical gardening advice as we explore the world of mulch. From grass clippings to wood chips, I break down the benefits and potential pitfalls of various organic materials. Disco...

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0:00.0	Well, hey, hey, friend, welcome back to the Old Fashion on Purposea's
0:04.0	we are.
0:10.0	Well, hey, friend. Welcome back to the Old Fashion on Purpose Podcast. We are kicking off season 15 today after a little bit of a break.
0:19.0	Well, a podcast break. I wouldn't say the rest of my life was on break. It was still moving pretty quickly.
0:24.7	But we are kicking off a brand new season and I'm really excited for this because I have a bunch of
0:29.3	amazing guests coming up and today's topic is also something I love to talk about.
0:34.3	So we're going to dive into mulch. It's something I've addressed here on the show
0:38.9	before but I will say that it is 100% saving my life this summer in the garden and I just wanted to go through
0:47.2	some of my new discoveries and findings about mulch, share some updates, give you some tips, because I get a ton of questions about this, and I will just say if you're not using it, you need to be using mulch. It will make your life so much better and save you so much time. So we're going to get into a deep dive about mulch today. But before we do that, I thought I would share a bit of a personal update. I like to do that usually at the first and last episodes of each new season.
1:15.0	Just because you guys are curious, you ask a lot of questions and I think it's kind of fun to keep you
1:18.8	abreast of what's been happening.
1:20.4	So a few things here.
1:22.0	First off, I just got back from the Homestead
1:26.4	Festival in Columbia, Tennessee. It's my second time going there to that
1:31.8	festival in particular, but I've been to Rory's
1:34.4	Feeks place a number of times for other events and it's just always so fun to go
1:37.9	there. His place is beautiful, it's always so well run in terms of how the
1:41.8	event goes and it's just so good to see
1:45.2	friends and like-minded folks. You know I think at least for people like me I often
1:51.5	prioritize filling my cup kind of at the bottom of my list where it doesn't even
1:55.7	make the list I just think I'm too busy I don't need that but whenever I finally
2:00.5	just bite the bullet and do it and you know hanging out with people who do what I do and
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