Mulch is made out of bark that is cut into little pieces.When it's cut into little pieces, we call it mulch. Mulch helps plants to grow healthier.
Mulch keeps soil moist so the water can be used by the plants instead of evaporating.
Mulch also keeps weeds away. When you put mulch on top of weeds, the weeds die and the plants are protected.
It keeps plants clean too! It gives a lot of nutrients to plants and they are more healthy.
We discovered that there were pencil shavings in the paper bin. It was bad because worms can't eat them so we had to seperate it all with tongs. We also saw tissues that the worms couldn't eat - we compost tissues. It took us a long time to separate the rubbish. It took us probably 30 minutes or a bit more to sort out the rubbish. We were so tired we had to have a rest but it was also fun. We even had fresh air and we took turns. We only had 3 in our group so we all had to take turns sorting the rubbish.
