Colorful Organic Wood Chips for Garden Decoration Land Covering

Wood chips are tiny pieces of wood, usually made out of whole trees, branches, and limbs. While they can be used to make paper, textiles, and wood products like chipboard (and more recently, as fuel), they're also an excellent fertilizer for gardens. They are renewable and easy to use as a mulch.

Not only are wood chips economical -you can easily create your own or obtain them for free from local recycling centers and arborists - but they also help keep unnecessary matter out of the landfills. You'll contribute less to fuel wastage and since they break down so slowly, you won't need to replace them often in your garden.

Wood chips are usually comprised of material of various sizes, so they're more resistant to becoming compacted than other materials, like bark or sawdust.

Plus, this diversity supports a wide range of soil microorganisms, making for a healthier plant environment and more resistance to environmental stress.

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Garden Planting Methods
When using bark on a new garden, you can apply a thick layer before you plant. When you are ready to set your seeds or starts, pull back just enough bark to drop your plants in. This will prevent most nuisance plants from coming up around the base of your good ones.
Using bark in a garden can be more than just weed control. There are a few gardening methods that use bark to generate food when soil is inadequate or unavailable.