What do you know about MULCH?

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Across
  1. 3. If the mulch keeps the sun from striking the soil, it prevents the soil from becoming this
  2. 4. Organic mulches encourage these little critters
  3. 6. This type of mulch is often used in the strawberry industry
  4. 9. A common material used to make mulch hay on the Sunshine Coast
  5. 10. A type of mulch that comes from a sawmill
  6. 11. An uncommon mulch that does not break down. Used at NCC.
  7. 13. Mulch slows down the removal of this from the soil
  8. 14. This type of mulch material comes from the stables and breaks down easily in the soil
Down
  1. 1. A type of hay that adds lots of nutrients to the soil
  2. 2. Organic mulches encourage the growth of this as it breaks down the mulch.
  3. 3. Mulch stops the germination of the seeds of these plants
  4. 5. The more nutritious the mulch, the more ______ it adds to the soil
  5. 7. This type of organic mulch is already mostly broken down
  6. 8. A microscopic decomposer that organic mulchs encourage the growth of in the soil
  7. 12. Mulch keeps the soil ________