Mulch!

Mulch

By Brittany Beatty and Isaac Ziefle

Mulch is wood chips, dirt and leaves. It is used in a garden for making planting beds. It’s also used for controlling weeds, and adding nutrients.

In the hoop house we use mulch for prepping our beds for plantings and for weed and moisture control. We use it to grow plants like kale and vegetables!

You can buy mulch like we did or you can make mulch by collecting pieces of wood chips, sticks, grass and leaves.

We use mulch in the hoophouse. We use shovels and two wheelbarrows to get the mulch where we need it. Shoveling mulch is hard work. It gives nutrients and moisture to the plants and it is good for the plants, it helps them grow.

The hoophouse helps us grow food. We cook the vegetables for the teachers but we get to try them and they are  good.

Recently we grew really tall beanstalks, but the beans didn’t grow. We grew tomatoes and made sauce, and we grew pumpkins and made muffins.

We make lots of foods with the vegetables we grow and are able to sample all the food we make...and most of the time we like them!