{"id":20479,"date":"2019-10-25T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20479"},"modified":"2019-10-25T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:54:36","slug":"strulch-does-well-in-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/strulch-does-well-in-pots\/","title":{"rendered":"Strulch does well in Pots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18791\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Himalayan-garden-Grewelthorpe-088-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Widgeon\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Himalayan-garden-Grewelthorpe-088-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Himalayan-garden-Grewelthorpe-088-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Himalayan-garden-Grewelthorpe-088-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Himalayan-garden-Grewelthorpe-088-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strulch is an organic mulch made from straw with embedded minerals. I made use of a lot of Strulch this spring and it has done a good job in several ways most visibly on the plants grown in pots.<\/p>\n<h3>Pot Plants With Strulch<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Strulch mulch reduces weed growth by up to 95% but as you see a couple of weeds poked through. However, they were easy to hand weed the recalcitrants.<\/li>\n<li>In the hot dry spring the pots needed a lot of watering but the mulch\u00c2\u00a0 helped retain moisture around plants.<\/li>\n<li>Enriching the soil and its structure as it slowly decomposes is not critical to pot plants but there are some benefits. I would have added some straw to my homemade compost if it was available.<\/li>\n<li>Even with my thin layer it lasts up to two years saving water and fertiliser but next year I will make the layer a bit thicker.<\/li>\n<li>As claimed there was no sign of Slugs and Snails so I will try to use it on my dwarf hostas next spring.<\/li>\n<li>The light brown appearance was aesthetically pleasing and seemed neat and tidy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strulch is an organic mulch made from straw with embedded minerals. I made use of a lot of Strulch this spring and it has done a good job in several ways most visibly on the plants grown in pots. Pot Plants With Strulch Strulch mulch reduces weed growth by up to 95% but as you see a couple of weeds poked through. However, they were easy to hand weed the recalcitrants. In the hot dry spring the pots needed a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/strulch-does-well-in-pots\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening","category-rhododendron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20481,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions\/20481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}