Summary: Making your own cedar mulch can save money and help the environment. Learn to chip cedar and make mulch with tips from a landscaper in this free video on making mulch.
Peter Bonenberger has always loved nature and believed that it is important. He and his wife founded a non-profit organization called the Bear Springs Blossom Nature Conservation. They...read more
Organic living: more than just a hobby. Today we know that many of the pesticides, fertilizers, and treatments used in commercial and home agriculture are hazardous to the environment. Whereas at one point in history it was ‘okay’ to drain all the nutrients from the soil and poison any insects living there, rendering the land dead and stagnant, and then simply move on to fresher pastures, today people are concerned with their ecological ‘footprint’ and recognizing the damage our gardening products (like weed killer and pesticides) have on the environment and human health. Even the way you mulch can have an affect on the earth. Cattle are often treated with hormones to produce more milk or larger muscles, and many of them are bombarded by pesticides and chemicals from the grass and feed they eat regularly. Organic gardening and DIY mulching are part of the counter-movement, small steps in the right direction that teach people to trust nature and the natural ways plants are grown.
In this free landscaping video series, conservationist and outdoorsman Peter Bohenberger teaches you how to make cedar mulch with a chipper shredder. Peter will show you how to operate a chipper shredder to make cedar mulch, how to spread the mulch with caleche to
"Ok what you see here is mulch form the Texas Cedar or Juniper mulch. We have just put it in the chipper shredder and made small pieces out of it. We have too many of these Texas Cedar in this hill country because the land was over graced and more and more cedars were growing. Now a days we try to reduce them so that the native plants can come up again and we can get more grasses growing and we will have more water in the ground. What we do here is we use these cedar mulch and put it on spots where nothing is growing. We cover the bare spots with cedar mulch and caleche and then the cedar mulch will react with the caleche because this cedar mulch, if you were to test it you would find out that it is really acidic. It is a kind of acid like you have in your house similar to vinegar. Acidic cedar mulch and alkaline soil like on the limestone than you create a wonderful new environment for your plants and your plants will grow by themselves. We have been doing this here for twelve years so from experience I can really say that your plants will grow by themselves. Everything you see around me are native plants. We do not seed, buy seeds or spread them out. The only thing we do is we use the cedar mulch, we spread it out and then the native plants come back."
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