Should I amend the planting hole or add mycorrhizal inoculum to the soil?
DO NOT AMEND the soil. If you don’t know what mycorrhiza is, don’t worry about it. If you do, don’t buy this ‘snake oil’. Save your money. Mycorrhiza is already in your soil or the soil on the plant you’re planting. Mycorrhiza inoculum is great for strawberry fields, acid mine tailings and other sterile sites, not for a native system or your yard. If you design and plant your garden or restoration right, the mycorrhiza will be there. 5. “What kind of mulch should I use?” Most plants thrive with shredded redwood bark, oak leaves and twigs or any debris that fell off your plant, or tree chippings. Desert plants don’t want mulch but a few rocks seem to help them out. Bad mulches for natives include: grass clippings, straw, manure, gravel, black plastic sheets or other synthetic mulches (these things literally cook the soil. really bad!!!), compost, Eucalyptus or walnut chippings, bark nuggets, newspaper, this list goes on endlessly. We are amazed at what people come up with. Just remember
