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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. 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 ...

  4. Mulch - Wikipedia

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    Groundcovers are plants which grow close to the ground, under the main crop, to slow the development of weeds and provide other benefits of mulch. They are usually fast-growing plants that continue growing with the main crops. By contrast, cover crops are incorporated into the soil or killed with herbicides. However, live mulches also may need ...

  5. Cover crop - Wikipedia

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    The cover cropped cotton fields were planted to clover, which was left to grow in between cotton rows throughout the early cotton growing season (stripcover cropping). During the migration and breeding season, they found that songbird densities were 7–20 times higher in the cotton fields with an integrated clover cover crop than in the ...

  6. Permaculture - Wikipedia

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    Mulch is a protective cover placed over soil. Mulch material includes leaves, cardboard, and wood chips. These absorb rain, reduce evaporation, provide nutrients, increase soil organic matter, create habitat for soil organisms, suppress weed growth and seed germination, moderate diurnal temperature swings, protect against frost, and reduce ...

  7. Sheet mulching - Wikipedia

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    The area of interest is flattened by trimming down existing plant species such as grasses. The soil is analyzed and its pH is adjusted (if needed). The soil is moisturized (if needed) to facilitate the activity of decomposers. The soil is then covered with a thin layer of slowly decomposing material (known as the weed barrier), typically ...

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