What are the Benefits of Cypress Mulch?

Decaying cypress can help garden plants produce surface roots, these roots add to the roots that are located under the ground. Mulched plants tend to have much more produced roots compared to unwrapped ones.

When a cypress mulch is maintained after mixing it in your native soil in a depth of 2 to 4 inches, it helps a lot in diminishing water from the soil through evaporation. Once the soil becomes moist, mulches serve as the shade that keeps the soils’ temperature cooler and decreases the evaporation period. This helps a lot especially in sandy types of soils since they naturally tend to lose the moisture compared to loam and clay soils.

As long as your cypress mulch is free from any weed seeds, it can help shade your soil from the germination and growth of any undesirable seeds in your landscape.

Since cypress mulch can provide enough shade for the soil, and moisture is kept thus a moderated temperature is observed. This is actually important especially during summer times where the heat of the sun makes the evaporation time faster, or even during cold season, mulches provide enough warmth for the soil and it helps to firm up the surface so that the landscape can be easy to walk on during winter months.

Over time, mulches will settle into your garden, and this is where a lot of nutrients will also be settling to your soil. The humus from decayed mulches can provide an improvement in the soil’s texture.