4 Important Benefits of Mulching Your Trees
Trees are a beautiful addition to any landscape, and they need proper care to flourish. Mulching is an important step in caring for your trees. Adding organic mulch to your landscape improves its appearance and provides several benefits to your trees.
Benefits of Mulching Your Trees
The advantages of mulching your trees include:
Retains Moisture and Reduces Erosion
Proper watering is essential for keeping trees healthy. Water quickly evaporates in hot weather, often before it reaches your trees’ roots. Mulch will trap water, allowing your trees to absorb the moisture. With proper mulching, you can significantly reduce how often you need to water your trees. In addition to retaining moisture, mulch also helps to prevent rain from washing away your soil, reducing erosion around your trees.
Soil Temperature
Mulching helps to keep your trees’ roots at an ideal temperature all year long. Soil can shift in extreme temperatures. Mulch acts as an insulator for your tree, protecting it from extreme heat and cold. Mulch keeps the soil around your tree cool during the summer and warm in the winter.
Inhibits Weed Growth
Weeds will compete with your trees for water and nutrients. Adding mulch to your landscape hampers the growth of weeds. Mulch reduces the amount of sunlight the weeds receive.
Provides Nutrition
As an organic mulch begins to break down, it releases additional nutrients into the soil around your trees. The trees’ roots will absorb the extra nutrients, and your trees will grow strong and healthy.
Provides protection
Thick mulch in the valleys and not the peaks of root flares all the way out to the drip line in some cases provide not only a visual barrier but also a physical barrier from the ravages of weed eaters and mowers. That kind of damage is persistent during the growing season and is very depilating on health.
Save Time With Mulch Delivery
If you’re interested in mulching your trees but you don’t have a lot of time to spend on landscaping, we can help. Advanced Tree & Shrub Care offers mulch delivery service to customers in the North Dallas/Mckinney areas. The mulch is unprocessed and naturally aged. No coloring or screening Mulch spreading is also available for an additional fee. Contact us to learn more.