The cycles that work in nature are amazingly complex and simultaneously simple. Which, in turn, makes them more amazing! A good gardener seeks to emulate those cycles in order to get the best from the soil for growing vegetables and plants it seems. At this time of the year gathering leaves for giving structure to compost or mulching directly onto flower beds and bare ground on your veg patch is an important job.
The Importance of the Mulching Blade
The business end: The mulching function on all ParkerBrand 3 in 1 leaf blowers is made from a strong alloy rather than plastic. This allows very effective, speedy mulching, especially when driven by the 26CC, 2HP proven two-stroke engine.
A Change of Habit?
Leaves contain a lot of carbon that when broken down makes great mulch, compost, and even lawn fertilizer. A good application of mulch will really help to improve the soil in your garden and help to prevent needless 'garden waste' from going to the tip. Putting something that can be used to improve the soil and hence give you a better garden. We have to ask ourselves; should we be stuffing such useful material into plastic bags and driving to a tip? Even if you have an excess and don't want to be up to your neck in mulched leaves - don't forget you closest community compost site. They be very happy to take your garden waste and put it to community use. You can find out more here.
If we're getting back to working with nature and it's cycles rather against it than If you don't shred them, they won't completely break down over the winter, and you'll have to rake them up in the spring. That's where the mulching function on our leaf blower comes in really handy.
The mulching function of the machine works best with leaves that are dry or damp, not so well with deeply saturated leaves. So pick a dry day and get whizzing!
Where to Mulch
Mulch your flower beds, being sure to avoid contact with the stems of perianal plants and shrubs so as not to encourage fugus and the like. Mulch your vegetable patch to add vital nutrients to the soil so you get better produce and build the stricture over time. if you're interested in no-dig gardening then you are certainly going to be needing as much mulch as you can get!
