Can you put topsoil over mulch

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The larger framed photos will be a big project, now we have to decide which ones we want to frame, where to put them and how to group them, lots of work cut out but you have been so helpful, our room looks huge! Where can I put some pop of colors in my living room Q. I usually see the front legs of the sofa on the rug, so if budget allows, get a rug that will take up the entire space under the coffee table.

Don't go small. Is your picture only 8" above the back of the sofa? It looks like it might be able to be lowered even more, but it certainly looks better. I think you should definitely get the rug before you do any pillows.

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There is a rug company that allows you to visualize the rug in your room. Sorry I didn't write down the website when I read the post, but maybe you could try to find that for help in deciding. I think your backyard would look best if the garden edges were defined better with a small basalt stone garden-wall or even a 4x6 pressure treated lumber.

Use boxwood to hide the green electrical box if need be. Replace it. Related Stories. There's more to topdressing than shredded wood. Learn about mulch types, costs and design considerations here.

Before you go making a mountain out of a mulch hill, learn the facts about what your plants and soil really want. A worm-powered compost bin that can fit under a sink turns food scraps into a powerful amendment for your garden.

Get free, organic soil fertilizer with nitrogen-pumping plants that draw pollinators too. Got alkaline soil? The product you plan to use, as well as the cedar, will break down over time as all natural mulches do. I would just leave the cedar in place. If you have access to leaves in the fall, you might want to make your own leaf mold since you like the look of "dirt" rather than coarse chips and such. Cheap free! To answer your question, I think you are right to be concerned about burying wood mulch with soil.

I would rake it off first. It kind of depends on how much is there. If it's a very thin layer such that you can see the soil peeking through, it probably won't cause much of a problem. If it's an inch or two thick I'd remove it. You could also skip covering it with soil and just add your new mulch to the top to cover. I don't think that would hurt anything and it would save you some work. Instead of wasting the organic matter in the mulch, I would just go ahead and add the soil and then keep an eye on the plants so you can add nitrogen if they look like they need it.

You will basically be sheet composting. When sheet composting materials that break down extremely slowly, mixing those materials with soil definitely speeds up the process. I do this with chopped up pine needles, live oak leaves, magnolia leaves, and any fallen tree limbs. Since fungi will break down wood and share the nutrients they liberate with plant roots in a symbiotic relationship, you might try adding one of the products that inoculates your soil with beneficial mycorrhizal fungi.

I've seen research that came to the conclusion that uncomposted mulch on top of soil does not affect nitrogen in the soil below it. It's only when you dig it in that it can do this, even that has much less effect then most people think. Now putting soil on top of the mulch shouldn't make a difference. Your roots are already in the soil below it where the nitrogen is. The white wood of the cedar will decompose fairly fast. The red heart wood may be there for the rest of ones life, especially if it is in an anaerobic condition.

Others here would know better than I, but perhaps you could add a good, thick layer of coffee grounds before adding the dirt. Would the nitrogen rich grounds then balance the effects? You don;t want your mulch to repel water, Better to sprinkle UCG lightly, compost, etc.

Doubtful that would dry out and cake up under a layer of soil. But shouldn't one's garden soil have mulch on top of it? Not used to thinking about putting soil OVER mulches. Bare soil is subject to erosion. It will become hard also and get more weeds. If you mulch top dress the soil will be softer and easier to weed. It's not like you won't get any weeds, but the weeds you get will be easier to deal with.

If compost and make some compost it will look more like soil then a woody mulch. I have both types of areas in my garden. I do have a bare soil area, that I use as a path, but I don't think it is the most attractive area. I would still like to cover it up, but the mulch I put there just get blown up against the fence.

Based on his second post it appears rouge is planning to use a type of mulch that is basically compost, so it looks more like soil and less like mulch, but the soil would not be bare. The only reason I would like to look at my soil is all the little mounds off earth worm poo being pushed up : Other than that, bleh.

As black I have experimented with this product this summer in a couple of my smaller gardens as an 'extra' healthy mulch which will be absorbed into the soil within a year.

This organic matter is sterilized horse and poultry manure with straw, which continuously breaks down and will maintain good earth structure. It's everything your garden needs, Mulch, Manure and Compost