This mulch I know: it’s good for your garden any time of year, but particularly in winter

Whether compost, manure or wood chippings, a thick protective layer of mulch has a litany of benefits

Rama Krishna Guttula, Abel Berhanu Asrat, TELUS Digital Ireland, Aaron Dondolo, Nagle Community College, Andy Bell, TELUS Digital Ireland were among team members from TELUS Digital Ireland's Cork campus who recently grabbed their gardening tools to prepare Mahon's Community Garden for the Winter months. The garden was established as Mahon's first community garden in October 2023 during the TELUS Days of Giving volunteer event.

Mulch, I think, is one of my favourite gardening words. There’s something onomatopoeic about it: conjuring the soft, damp nourishment of the work it does to the soil.

In the simplest terms mulching is adding rotted-down plant matter to your soil to feed and nourish it. As with everything in the garden, however, people do like to complicate it.