Cover your soil to build a healthy garden! #gardentips #texasgarden #gardening #soilhealth

I showed how I was getting a bed revamped after my soil had dried out over the winter because I didn’t have it covered and why it’s so important to cover your soil and this is my favorite way to do it this is a weed whacker and

This is a trash can and then we just collect our leaves and do a little Dany dance and chop them up this helps them decompose a little bit faster and I find that they don’t Blow Away In The Wind as easily but leaves have their own set of

Microbes that they can add back to your soil and we are protecting the soil it doesn’t dry out like this we are trying to mimic Forest FL this helps protect all of the life that’s in the soil that needs moisture and when you leave dead plants those microbes can eat off of

Those roots and here’s an example of this in a container I let this tomato plant just sit over the winter and this container was deeply mulched and look how black and Rich this soil is so the moral of the story is keep your soil covered and chopped leaves are really

One of the best things to cover it with if you can get your hands on