Sydney Buerk’s Garden Cleanup Round 3

For this service round I chose to do garden cleanup. I worked outside in the garden after school for a total of two hours. Both days I went, I helped with piling mulch in a wheelbarrow several times. With that fresh mulch, me and a couple others used shovels to spread it all over the dirt that had previously been the ground for the garden. The purpose of putting a new layer of mulch in the garden is to suppress slow moisture evaporation and to break down soil gradually. Mulch helps moderate soil temperatures. The only area I put the mulch in was in and around the chicken coop because that’s what I was instructed to do. This has taught me that mulch has a way bigger purpose than just covering ground and making it look nicer.