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Mulch   /məltʃ/   Listen
Mulch

noun
1.
A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion.





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"Mulch" Quotes from Famous Books



... river divides again, one stream coming tumbling down through the cleft between Cairn Toul and Brae Riach, called the Garchary Burn. The other, less precipitously inclined, comes from between Brae Riach and Ben Mulch Dhul, and is called the Larig. Like the Nile and the Niger, the Dee is a river of a disputed source. As we shall presently find, the right of the Garchary to that distinction is strongly maintained by pretty ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... frequent waterings with liquid manure; others a surface dressing of sheep manure; still others a mulch of moderately well decayed stable manure. Plants growing under glass, particularly in pots or boxes, seem to be benefitted by so heavy a dressing that if applied to plants growing outside it would be likely to give excessive growth of vine with ...
— Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato • William Warner Tracy


Words linked to "Mulch" :   protective covering, protection, cover, protective cover


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