mulch

I scraped off the white webbing under my mulch every July thinking it was mould: the summer I finally left it alone, I understood what it was feeding

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I scraped off the white webbing under my mulch every July thinking it was mould: the summer I finally left it alone, I und...

That white webbing spreading through your mulch every July isn’t mold at all—it’s mycelium, the underground growth of beneficial fungi quietly rebuilding your soil. By scraping it away, you’re undoing months of free work that helps plants access nutrients and water they couldn’t reach alone.

I spread a simple layer of mulch around my tomato plants just to keep weeds down: since then, not a single fruit has split after a storm

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I spread a simple layer of mulch around my tomato plants just to keep weeds down: since then, not a single fruit has split...

A backyard gardener discovered that spreading mulch around tomato plants eliminated fruit splitting after storms. The secret isn’t luck—it’s about stabilizing soil moisture between rainfall. Here’s why this simple fix works and how to do it right.