Spent mushroom compost great for flower borders with heavy clay soils<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAs mulch is a clean material free from weeds that covers your existing flower beds stopping light from getting to existing seeds and preventing them from germinating. In the case of spent mushroom compost, it is broken down over a period adding lime and organic matter to the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mulch is a clean weed-free material that prevents annual weeds and improves soil quality
Your soil lacks organic matter which is important to hold nutrients and water in the soil. Plus as your soil is slightly acid adding a dressing of garden lime would be helpful. All these requirements can be satisfied by adding a mulch on top of the soil in the flower beds around the plants using spent mushroom compost about 50mm deep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As mulch is a clean material free from weeds that covers your existing flower beds stopping light from getting to existing seeds and preventing them from germinating. In the case of spent mushroom compost,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
Mulching your borders - Mary's Garden<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mulching your borders - Mary's Garden\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As mulch is a clean material free from weeds that covers your existing flower beds stopping light from getting to existing seeds and preventing them from germinating. In the case of spent mushroom compost,...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mary's Garden\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-31T12:32:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-31T12:32:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"GardenAdvice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mygardenteam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mygardenteam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GardenAdvice\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"GardenAdvice\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/person\/6788fc62d3d3094c8008a4c6e4531dbe\"},\"headline\":\"Mulching your borders\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-31T12:32:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-31T12:32:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Uncategorized\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\",\"name\":\"Mulching your borders - Mary's Garden\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-31T12:32:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-31T12:32:31+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":450},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mulching your borders\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/\",\"name\":\"Mary's Garden - MyGardenTeam\",\"description\":\"MyGardenTeam member with GardenAdvice.co.uk\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GardenAdvice.co.uk - MyGardenTeam service\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"GardenAdvice.co.uk - MyGardenTeam service\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/mygardenteam\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mygardenteam\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/gardenadvice\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCW8AvNqPWFlHFqXAlKW1mgA\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/person\/6788fc62d3d3094c8008a4c6e4531dbe\",\"name\":\"GardenAdvice\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57a93ef9c84706d6a42fd5b9c9864ba35c0716400f460a7a33ec6fda98a9d905?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57a93ef9c84706d6a42fd5b9c9864ba35c0716400f460a7a33ec6fda98a9d905?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57a93ef9c84706d6a42fd5b9c9864ba35c0716400f460a7a33ec6fda98a9d905?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GardenAdvice\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/author\/gardenadvice\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mulching your borders - Mary's Garden","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mulching your borders - Mary's Garden","og_description":"As mulch is a clean material free from weeds that covers your existing flower beds stopping light from getting to existing seeds and preventing them from germinating. In the case of spent mushroom compost,...","og_url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/","og_site_name":"Mary's Garden","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk\/","article_published_time":"2021-08-31T12:32:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-31T12:32:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"GardenAdvice","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@mygardenteam","twitter_site":"@mygardenteam","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GardenAdvice","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/"},"author":{"name":"GardenAdvice","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/person\/6788fc62d3d3094c8008a4c6e4531dbe"},"headline":"Mulching your borders","datePublished":"2021-08-31T12:32:30+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-31T12:32:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/"},"wordCount":137,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg","articleSection":["Uncategorized"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/","name":"Mulching your borders - Mary's Garden","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg","datePublished":"2021-08-31T12:32:30+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-31T12:32:31+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg","width":700,"height":450},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/mulching-your-borders\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mulching your borders"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#website","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/","name":"Mary's Garden - MyGardenTeam","description":"MyGardenTeam member with GardenAdvice.co.uk","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#organization","name":"GardenAdvice.co.uk - MyGardenTeam service","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/cropped-favicon.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"GardenAdvice.co.uk - MyGardenTeam service"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GardenAdvice.co.uk\/","https:\/\/x.com\/mygardenteam","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mygardenteam\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/gardenadvice\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCW8AvNqPWFlHFqXAlKW1mgA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/#\/schema\/person\/6788fc62d3d3094c8008a4c6e4531dbe","name":"GardenAdvice","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57a93ef9c84706d6a42fd5b9c9864ba35c0716400f460a7a33ec6fda98a9d905?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57a93ef9c84706d6a42fd5b9c9864ba35c0716400f460a7a33ec6fda98a9d905?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57a93ef9c84706d6a42fd5b9c9864ba35c0716400f460a7a33ec6fda98a9d905?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GardenAdvice"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk"],"url":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/author\/gardenadvice\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/08\/mushroom-compost.jpg\")