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  2. Wood Chips Are the Secret to Healthy Soil and Plants ... - AOL

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    Abdi says using wood chips as mulch can help maintain moisture, moderate soil temperatures, and suppress weeds in the garden. To insulate the roots of your plants, add a 2—to 3-inch layer over ...

  3. Sheet mulching - Wikipedia

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    Sheet mulch has important advantages relative to conventional methods, such as tilling, plowing or applying herbicides: Improvement of desirable plants' health and productivity. [1] Retention of water and nutrients and stabilization of biochemical cycles. [1] Improvement of soil structure, soil life, and prevention of soil erosion. [1] [8]

  4. Living mulch - Wikipedia

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    Living mulch planted to retard weed growth between corn rows. In agriculture, a living mulch is a cover crop interplanted or undersown with a main crop, and intended to serve the purposes of a mulch, such as weed suppression and regulation of soil temperature. Living mulches grow for a long time with the main crops, whereas cover crops are ...

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    Mulch done right can help capture water and retain moisture around a plant’s roots during dry spells. It can help keep lawnmowers and string trimmers from damaging a plant’s bark.

  6. Mulch - Wikipedia

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    Bark chips applied as mulch. A mulch is a layer of material applied to the surface of soil. Reasons for applying mulch include conservation of soil moisture, improving fertility and health of the soil, reducing weed growth, and enhancing the visual appeal of the area. A mulch is usually, but not exclusively, organic in nature.

  7. How to Get Rid of Termites Safely and Effectively - AOL

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  8. Formica lugubris - Wikipedia

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    These ants typically mate during the month of June. [3] Unmated winged female ants release a pheromone that will attract a male. They will both fly off into the forest and mate on the ground, usually where there are no other worker ants around. [3] Not every ant can reproduce; reproductive males and females are larger than worker ants and have ...

  9. Fungus-growing ants - Wikipedia

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    Within 14 days, the ants are covered in the bacteria, where they are stored in crypts and cavities found in the exoskeletons. The bacteria produce small molecules that can prevent the growth of a specialized fungus garden pathogen. [33] Attine ants have very specialized diets, which seem to reduce their microbiotic diversity. [74] [75] [76] [77]

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