Comments on: Living Breathing Plants: the Best Mulch of All

By: Vegetable Garden Cover for Winter Protection — Veggie Gardening Tips

Vegetable Garden Cover for Winter Protection — Veggie Gardening Tips — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:45:11 +0000

[...] such as floating row fabrics, cold frames, and greenhouse films. There’s also my favorite; a living mulch of hardy vegetation or cover crops. They all have various benefits to offer when it comes to [...]

By: Kristy

Kristy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:31:35 +0000

I am not sure when to harvest my broccoli. It looks like it’s starting to flower and the heads aren’t as firm as they were, however, I didn’t plant them that long ago and the heads aren’t that big. Should I grab them now while they are still firm?
Thank you,
Kristy “the newbie”

By: Kenny Point

Kenny Point — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:08:54 +0000

Hi Renata, thanks for stopping by. If anything your tomato, pepper, and squash seedlings may be too close together if you planted them a foot apart. The plants are going to need additional room as they mature and spread out. I would leave them alone for now and just keep them well weeded until they begin to branch out, at that point you may need to thin them a bit if they start to over crowd each other. It would be fine to add the companion plants that you mentioned where you can find the room but I would plant them as companions rather than as a living mulch. Hope your plants are safe from the frost!

By: Renata

Renata — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:20:55 +0000

This is great information. This is my first time gardening, so I can use all the help I can get
I just planted my seedlings (tomato, sweet peppers, summer squash and cucumber), not really knowing if they are too far apart or not. They are about 1 foot apart. Should I plant companion plants (such as marigolds, basil, and other protective plants) around the plants as mulches?
By the way, thanks for the info about frost. We have a frost advisory tonight and I just planted the seedlings yesterday.

By: The Scoop on Mulching a Vegetable Garden | Green PocketBook

The Scoop on Mulching a Vegetable Garden | Green PocketBook — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:47:28 +0000

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By: Living Breathing Plants: the Best Mulch of All (Google / Veggiegardeningtips) « Container Gardening

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:18:46 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:54:36 +0000

I like this idea and try to keep my plantings as close together as possible. Just one plug though for doing both if your climate necessitates it, that is, live vegetables keeping the sun off the mulch keeping the moisture in the ground.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:47:25 +0000

Interesting info. Thanks.