Specialty Gardening: Flowers in the Garden #2, 1 by weed_woman

weed_woman wrote:
LOL, Candee! Not barbells, but the bottom of an old push hand mower. Yes, I have lots of interesting objects in the garden. I will have to photograph them all and start a new thread for that!
Oh, Leo would love some rabbits! Is Terri having trouble with them at the lottie?
Sugarcane mulch, is the leftover leaves from the sugar cane when it's been harvested. I think in the USA you call it sugarcane trash. It is sold here, plastic wrapped, at all the garden centres, but we get it straight from the cane growers, baled up like stockfeed. It has the odd large stem in it, which the dogs absolutely love to chew on! Its great because it has no weeds or seeds in it, and is quite soft compared to meadow hay or straw. I also think it must have a high sugar content, which I'm sure is beneficial to the plants. And along the way, it is also recycling! I try to encourage all my customers to use it, aswell we sell it from the gate to most of our neighbours. DH picks up over 100 bales on his big truck about every 6 months. I use about 15 of each load to top up old beds and start new ones. Its a very cheap and not-to-strenuous way to mulch the garden.
And here ends the lesson on sugar cane mulch! do you have much in the way of cane growers over there? Over here its grown in the warm to tropial climates.
Sue