COLUMN: BEWARE: Overmulching can cause serious plant problems

Every year I write about mulch, but no ones seems to care. Mounds of mulch still choke the trunks of trees everywhere you look this time of the year. Trees in landscapes look like telephone poles sticking out of soon to be crusted over black mulch.
How’s that for a foreboding tale?
Here’s the message, too much mulch is a bad thing. I know, some people have been liberated, but we still have more work to do.
The bottom line: 2 inches of coarse mulch that is not piled around the trunk of the tree or shrub is the desired goal.

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