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Nearly all New England source mulch is tub ground/chipper ground indigenous species, it could be almost anything. The better yards amend the shredded/chipped stock with mild boric acid for insect control and add a dye for color. Playground mulch is dictated by the state for size of chip, material, and allowable percent of "other" material, it's usually dye free. Only mulch sold by species name, such as red cedar, cypress, pine, cocoa shell, hemlock, etc. can be sold if the content of "other" material is less than 10%. Pine needle mulch is ideal mulch, but if you worry about the ph, there is nothing wrong with mulching with aggregate, it won't alter your soil ph or produce artillery fungus (which can shoot its spores over twenty feet and cause damage to metal, plastic, and wood surfaces). Regardless of what you use, renew it every spring to eliminate fungus and dye fade. I thank you very mulch.
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its nice to know there is a kubotaguy out there too...i guess everyone has a match...
Yes, dark hardwood is totally the way to go, even the cypress is unreliable sometimes...but remember, there are great things you can do with a tub grinder and some perserverance...if your really that anti red mulch.
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I bought 10 bags of cedar mulch from Home Depot. Then, thinking that all cedar mulch is created equal, I bought 10 bags from Walmart. Much to my surprise the Walmart stuff was totally different. The Home Depot mulch was chipped, with red and white chips and had that nice cedar-closet smell. The Walmart stuff was shredded, red-brown in color and smelled horrid. In fact the Walmart stuff looked more like cypress, but was clearly marked cedar. The Walmart mulch was 30 cents cheaper per bag, I guess you get what you pay for.
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Hey Scooter, I don't think WalMart even knows what they are selling! So long as people buy it, they sell it. WalMart has been in trouble here in CT on more than one occasion for selling under false representation.
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I second what Murf said. Depending on the type of mulch will change your soils ph. If you use a Pine bark then of course your ph will head towards the acidic side and if you choose hardwood then the soils leans more toward the neutral or alkaline side. Some plants prefer soil with more acid and will actually suffer if the soil's ph raises much past neutral. I'm a landscape designer/owner and prefer mulch over pine straw as we call it in the south, because as it decomposes from the bottom side it amends and richens the soil, not to mention moisture retention, weed barrier, and cosmetics. There is a HUGE market for Pine Straw bails too.
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We have a different use for wood chips or shavings. We are moving our small horse herd to a new barn in Colorado and need to find a smaller scale piece of equipment (preferrably used) that we can use to make wood shavings/chips for bedding. Everything we have found to date is either for larger mulch type chipping or it is very large scale and very $$$
Any suggestions out there?
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The only concern i have is that all this red dyed mulch is toxic to animals and i can only imagine what it will end op doing to plants. We may be in trouble in a couple years with some freakish plants that got genetically altered due to a wicked dye used in the mulch. Down with Red Mulch
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Our town has a mulch that is from wood chips and sludge. They use a 3/4 inch screen and the fine stuff seems to catch to much grass and weed seed. the larger stuff wiorks great when run thru a couple of times and will hold the color for several years and doesn't have enough fine stuff for the weed seed to germinate. I've got to roll mine out now after five years. Anything in the bed of coarse grows great!
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yeah, i know whenever i want to go cover my ground, sludge is the first thing i think of to use. Hey, and remember when it was cool to mulch your plants in with pea gravel?
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Anybody used rubber mulch? My buddy's landscape supply sells it for...better sit down for this...$630-$850 for a 3-yard palletized poly-bag. It's made of recycled rubber tires and surface-dyed---just like chopped up pallets! The amazing thing though is that it looks and almost feels like (rubbery) wood. The cheaper stuff is chunks about the size of pine bark; the expensive stuff has pieces that look like shredded cedar bark. Comes in several colors including dark and light brown, and even blue, red and green. Commercial office buildings and condo complexes like it because they don't have renew it every year.
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