Spring is a great time for mulch. Its application sets the season up for success, in both aesthetic and practical terms. Not only will your flower beds, trees, and walkways look refreshed, but they’ll have a head start on nutrition and weed control.
Mulch is a ground cover product that consists primarily of decaying wood chips. It’s produced often from the leftover stumps and cuttings of forestry operations, by means of repeatedly cutting and screening the starter material loosely uniform 1-inch pieces.
Mulch provides both a visual contrast to grass, flowers, and pathways, and serves rich nutrients to plants, especially woody species like trees or shrubs. And as mulch is an organic product it decays over several years, slowly becoming soil again. And the mulched areas in your yard will need new applications to continue receiving its valuable service.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been hard at work, moving over 20,000lbs of freshly developed mulch to client’s properties. Much of the material was moved by hand, in wheelbarrows then raked out over the surface. A large amount also was placed on steep slope by excavator, to ensure best coverage.
For larger areas, customers often opt for natural or colored mulches, which match the screening tolerance and feel of more expensive mulches – but are more readily available for best pricing. Customers with smaller areas to mulch, or in need of compost mix to increase nutrient allowance, often get spruce-hemlock or natural/compost mixes – that have good aroma.
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