what is a good mulch to use on vanilla?
The answer is almost anything that is readily available in your area; is cheap to acquire and doesn’t involve high transport costs; is fresh and not already composted; and can be obtained preferably right inside your farm. The two kinds of mulch that work best for me are coconut husks and fallen leaf detritus. Oh, and don’t use green leaves such as grass-clippings since they readily decompose and create anaerobic conditions around the vanilla roots. My farm has about 2,000 hybrid coconut palms that I planted a long time ago when I wanted to become a millionaire selling coconuts. This is a cheap material to use as mulch since it is readily available in many areas; holds the vanilla roots off of the ground away from where the Fusarium fungi like to live; decompose fairly slowly (2-3 years) and the vanilla roots seem to “like” it. I place a layer of pieces of coconut husk with the hole facing down and around the vanilla plant and its tutor tree in a diameter of about one meter. That’s a l
