Rubber Mulch: 3 Instant Garden Make-Over Tips
Updating the look of your garden need not be expensive. If you’re a super gardener, then you can do it yourself without spending much time or much money on additional plants and tools. On the other hand, if you’re a hopeless gardener, then you don’t need to hire a landscaper (again) to change your garden’s look a little. You can do it yourself without killing everything you touch.
Below are 3 garden make-over tips that gives your garden a fresh new look without being time-consuming and expensive.
1. Replace wood mulch with rubber mulch
It may be argued that wood mulchis organic, therefore healthy for the soil. However, being that wood mulch is organic, it also rots. And rotten wood mulch encourages fungal and bacterial growth which ends up being harmful for your plants. Oh, and rotting wood mulch smells awful.
On the other hand, rubber mulch doesn’t rot. It is non-toxic, so there are no chemicals that can harm your soil. Water is still allowed to seep into the soil in controlled amounts, making sure your plants don’t drown when it rains hard. Rubber mulch also controls soil erosion, which keeps your plots in place and as a bonus, keeps mud to a minimum.
2. Add more color
Rubber mulch comes in different colors that you can choose from to The complement your foliage. Switching from one color to another is easy, and you can choose to keep old mulch for later use.
3. Landscape art
Rubber mulch is easy to apply onto garden beds, pots and even onto greens. Landscape art with rubber mulch is easy. Pick a pattern or picture, create an outline using strings or cardboard cut outs and fill in the spaces with rubber mulch in different colors. It’s nice to look at while being functional. You can even involve your kids!
