Chop and drop mulch

By growing your own mulch plants you will save money, time and effort! Chop and drop for mulch plants will benefit your soil and keep the weeds down.

Chop & Drop mulching utilises overgrown herbs, veg, shrubs and even weeds in your garden. Perennials accumulate a lot of micro-nutrients in their leaves.

It can take months, if not years, to create a sufficient amount of traditional compost in compost bins. Thankfully, there's another, simpler way to improve your soil: the chop and drop system.

Discover chop and drop: a sustainable gardening practice to boost soil health, retain moisture, and enrich your garden with natural mulch.

Chop and drop in the vegetable garden. Homestead gardening, cover crops, Permaculture, mulching. #homestead #permaculture #mulching #mulch

Chop and Drop Mulching should be considered a basic, core skill for Permaculturists... and it is so easy!

When your vegetables die after the first deep frost, what do you do? If you chop-and-drop your dead vegetables, you can build soil in place.

In my blog post I provide an overview of how you can use chop-and-drop to build next year's abundance. What is chop-and-drop?

7 permaculture gardening techniques for you to try in your garden! | No-Dig | Keyhole Designs | Vermiculture Buckets | Chop-and-Drop Mulch | Companion Planting | Rotational Cropping | Green Manure |

Just for a comparison, here’s a photo of the other part of the land, taken at the same time as the one above, where we have not yet planted a food forest or have been implementing permacultur…

Discover how chop-and-drop can revolutionize your gardening approach, fostering healthier plants and building nutrient-rich soil for long-term success.

And by mulch I mean any old thing, don’t go mortgaging your house for fancy store bought stuff. In the absence of garden waste (which I find hard to believe –

This catchphrase of permaculture, chop and drop, is covered deeply in this article with a focus on its power to build soil and alter patterns of succession.

Mulch is a great way to protect your garden from drought and disease. But it's so much work! What if there was an easier way? Here are the four things you need to decide if chop and drop might be the right approach for you.

Question and Discussion: Eliminate debris to reduce pests and diseases (clean garden practice) VS mulching, chop & drop and creating wildlife habitat: which is better? Question from one of our students: “I’ve read that one major way to inhibit garden pests organically is to eliminate debris to get rid of places the pests hide. But you taught us the value of mulching and chop and drop which also make sense. So I have been putting freshly chopped leaves down in the fall. I think it helps with…

‘Chop and Drop’ is a permaculture technique that returns nutrients from pruning and weeding directly to the soil. There are pros and cons for this method of composting and mulching – is it worth trying in your garden?

It is possible to keep your mulch from washing away during heavy rains or minor flooding, but you'll need to implement the right strategies. #mulch #gardening

Mulching doesn't have to be an annual chore. Instead, plant thickly to suppress weeds in the garden, and use mulch as a temporary measure.

Myth Buster: Do Arborist Wood Chips Deplete Soil of Nitrogen and Other Nutrients? In areas where there are a lot of trees, many arborists and public utility companies will deliver a load of wood ch…