mulch

Object

• watering: Your main duties will include sowing, mulching, watering, weeding, and farming.
• mower: You can also buy mulching mowers and garden tractors.

Converse of object

• apply: Applying a surface mulch will also help retain moisture.
• spread: Spreading a mulch very thinly over a larger area will have little effect.

Adjective modifier

• straw: The straw mulch will also conserve moisture in the soil for the vine roots.
• thick: An alternative is to cover the entire potato growing area with a thick mulch of old hay, or straw mixed with grass cuttings.
• decorative: Giving them a good soaking late in the afternoon helps, and our decorative bark mulch will also help keep moisture in.
• organic: A thick layer of organic mulch, renewed annually, will help prevent this.
• loose: Synthetic membranes are best covered with a loose mulch.
• generous: Once planted, give your plants a very generous mulch of garden compost every spring to keep improving that soil.

Modifies a noun

• mat: Avoid having people walking through the newly planted area, apart from those who are fitting guards or mulch mats.

Noun used with modifier

• bark: A peat or bark mulch in the Spring will assist in keeping weeds at bay.
• cocoa: Thanks From Marisa, USA I use cocoa shell mulch on mine.
• leaf: Instead of leaf mulch we can return compost to the soil.
• shell: Thanks From Marisa, USA I use cocoa shell mulch on mine.
• winter: In colder areas, shrubs might need a winter mulch was £ 11.90, now £ 5.95

Preposition: of

• compost: Don't use where bulbs are planted around the shrubs, a mulch of compost or bark is best here.
• manure: Clematis benefit greatly from an annual mulch of manure or good garden compost during the autumn.

Preposition: with

• manure: When planting in the Autumn plant with Bone Meal and mulch with manure and compost around the top.
• compost: I blame the cold heavy clay which is ever present, even tho I mulch with homemade compost and lots of bark.