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Big Pile Of Wood Chips For Mulch

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I love mulch.

Besides looking nice, in the summer months it really conserves water in the raised herb and kitchen garden beds. The last few years mulch for that reason has been really unnecessary…we’ve had WAY too much rain.

 See the picture to the right?

Well the county was out and about this week trimming storm damaged trees and branches that had grown up into the power lines.

The crew kindly offered to bring me some of the chipped branches when they had finished trimming along my road.

“Oh sure, bring me some. You can just dump them off the side of the drive over there.”

I had forgotten about it until late in the afternoon when I heard a BIG truck rumble into the drive. A big dump truck. Full of chipped branches. They dumped it fast,offered more should I need it…and took off.

I now have my summer pile of mulch. Size-wise it’s up there with a Chevy Pick Up- so it should last awhile.

 If you need mulch, check in your areas for inexpensive and even free mulch. Many counties have places where you can go load up your own mulch.

We have found that it is really easy to get mulch after storms that take out big trees. Trimming crews often just want some place to dump the stuff!

If you can’t find any, give me a call. I could probably spare a little of mine