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Mulch

Mulch is a great way to help both yourself and your plants. Good quality mulch properly applied will keep the plants roots cool, conserve moisture in the soil, and greatly reduce weed growth. Weeds not only look bad but steal vital nutrients and moisture from the soil. From your perspective it looks great too!

black_mulch_tn Bark or wood based mulches are what's most commonly used. It is relatively inexpensive, attractive and durable, and easy to apply. While it is durable it will break down over time and add a fantastic amount of organic matter to build the soil for even happier plants over time. We sell two different types in bulk (by the cubic yard). "Red" is the classy, cinnamon colored mulch. This is a somewhat bright mulch, but not the nearly fluorescent pained woodchips one sometimes sees at used car lots. To start out 2011 the price for Red is $44.95 per cubic yard. Mulch prices may prove to be rapidly changing in early 2011 in response to diesel prices. The other one is Black. Black is a rich and deep colored, like semisweet chocolate chips.  It is great for making the plants show up extremely well. The 2011 price for Black is $42.95 per cubic yard with the same possible price changes noted above.

red_mulch_tn We do deliver to the area. We can usually deliver the same day or next day. The truck fits up to 6 cubic yards, and we have no minimum volume for delivery. We have a larger truck available for larger volumes, please call for delivery pricing for that. We gladly take orders over the phone for mulch deliveries. We encourage you to come in and take a look at our mulches. We are proud of our quality!

Click here to order Black Mulch online

Click here to order Red Mulch online

Please not that for online orders we are generally able to deliver after 48 hours. Sooner may well be possible but please call first to check if you need it in a hurry!

A note on much volume: Mulch is sold by the "yard" which is more accurately a cubic yard, or an cube 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet. Seems straight forward enough. Unfortunately our customers tell us that some unscrupulous sellers seem to have a smaller bucket on their tractor than we do. And it can be very hard to tell what an accurate measurement is. Put another way, if you were to order and pay for 100 cement blocks, but only 75 were delivered, you would feel as if you had been ripped off. As well you should! We had one customer come in to get a pickup truck load of mulch. He said he wanted 3 yards. We told him there was no way we could fit 3 yards in his small truck. He then said he has been getting it at {name deleted} for years and THEY can fit 3 yards in. We ended up loading his truck with two yards. He said that was the same volume the other place had been calling 3 yards all these years. The moral of the story? Don't be lured in by unrealistically low prices per yard. What really matters is how much it costs you to finish the project. So whether you get it form us, or somebody else, make sure you are comfortable with the supplier.

Mulch Calculator

Enter Length of bed in feet


Enter Width of bed in feet  


Cubic Yards Mulch needed for a
                        NEW BED:


Cubic Yards Mulch needed for a
PREVIOUSLY MULCHED BED:


 Please note this calculator figures out the MINIMUM amout you will need. If you plan on appling a little heavier, or adding additional small areas you may want to order 10-15% more to be safe.

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  West Brookfield Warren
    West Warren
    Worcester

 

There are some specialty mulches such as Buckwheat Hulls and Cocoa Bean Shells which can be just as advantageous, but are significantly more expensive.

Other mulches that we do not recommend in general include crushed stone, and brick chips. Crushed stone an brick do not do anything bad, but they do not build the soil by adding organic matter over time. Organic matter in the soil is the key to long term success with your plants.

The calculator avbove will figure out how much mulch you need. If you want to figure it out on your own, one cubic yard will cover about 300-330 square feet to a depth of one inch. For an initial application we recommend about 2.5 to 3 inches of mulch. To "refresh" an previously mulched are only about one inch is needed. deeper applications than this are not better, and can actually cause problems.

 We also have bags of mulch in Hemlock (red)  and Dark Pine (black). To convert cubic yards to bags use the following chart. If you are trying to figure out if bagged or bulk is less expensive, usually bulk is. If you need more than about 15 bags (14-18 depending on type) it is less expensive to get it delivered, even with the delivery charge included.

  Number of bags needed
Cubic yards 2 cubic foot bag  
0.25 3.4  
0.5 6.8  
0.75 10.1  
1 13.5  
1.25 16.9  
1.5 20.3  
1.75 23.6  
2 27.0  
Last Updated on Monday, 25 April 2011 10:00