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Wood Chips
Perhaps the most common mulch used by yardeners around landscape plants and beds is wood chips; usually purchased from the local garden center or home center. Wood chips are still organic matter and if you only use wood chips, the soil health will improve over the years, but probably at half the rate of chopped leaves or peat moss.

Preparing To Sod the Lawn
If the soil has sufficient organic matter and air in it, it will support a good population of earthworms and microbes. Tilling the turf into the soil: An alternative to stripping off the old turfgrass sod is tilling it into the soil with a large rented self-propelled or tractor drawn tiller that will loosen the soil to a depth of at least 6 inches..

About Renovation With Sod
Routine Maintenance - The easiest way to insure a beautiful lawn for the long term is to overseed the existing turf every four or five years or when it is about 25% weeds.

Organic Content?
Healthy soil teams with microbial and earthworm activity which generates nutrients in the form that plants can best utilize. Soil Under The Lawn - If you have not left your grass clippings on the lawn with every mowing and if you have not added any amendments such as peat moss or compost to your lawn in the past five years, you can assume that your soil is quite devoid of organic matter and that you definitely need to add some this season.

Behavior of Water
Most landscape plants come with the advice to put them is a soil that drains well. The health of plants in the yard depends on the soil's ability to quickly drain away excess water from the its surface.


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