The Origins of Mulching

Mulching simply goes back to an old English word, meaning soft. If you're mulching, you are making the ground a little bit soft, aren't you? So it's, yeah, a dialect word. And ultimately from old English, you can see a lot of these are very, very old soil. You might think that actually the soil meaning earth and the soil meaning making dirties or something are linked, but they're actually quite distinct. The verb to soil to make dirty is actually a bit of an insult against pigs because it ultimately means 'a little pig'

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