When looking to spruce up your landscaping, garden mulch is an easy and affordable way to do so. These come in different colours and varieties and provide a rustic and homey appeal. Mulch also adds nutrients to the soil and helps suppress weeds, making it a wonderful addition to your garden.
While mulch is often used outdoors, mulching indoor plants also offers several wonderful benefits. Wholesale Sleepers, the premier source of quality landscaping materials, can help you get started on indoor mulching with our wide selection of products. Mulch is often used indoors:
To Promote Water Retention
Adding mulch to your indoor plants improves their ability to retain water, as mulch blocks out the sun. This helps minimise evaporation and conserve moisture in the soil. Investing in quality mulches for your plants will help keep them hydrated and healthy.
To Protect Plants
The right kind of mulch can keep your plants drying and weathering, enrich the soil with nutrients and protect it from curious pets. When choosing mulch for your plants, be sure to choose materials that don’t compact. This will allow the nutrients in the mulch to reach plant roots easier.
To Improve Aesthetic Appeal
Aside from keeping your plants healthy, mulching is also a great way to make your plants look better. Decorative mulch can cover up soil and potting mixes, making your plants neater-looking and more eye-catching. You can match the colour of the mulch to the vase you use for your plants or follow the colour scheme in your room.
Indoor Mulch Don’ts
Since indoor mulch can help retain moisture in the soil, it’s easy to overwater houseplants. When your plant starts to look dry, don’t water it right away. Instead, pull back the mulch to check the moisture level of the soil. If the soil underneath is soggy or moldy, you can hold off on watering.
Another common mistake that homeowners make is to simply pile up the mulch on their plants. Over mulching can cause your plants to rot. Since these are kept indoors, they won’t need as much mulch as they do outdoors so we recommend keeping the amount of mulch used to a minimum.
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