Georgia Gardening: my before and after, 0 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
You should be able to get a load of mulch delivered but it might cost you $50 or more to have it delivered. In that case get a large load of it, that is if you want that much delivered at one time.

I buy it in bags at times, or get a pickup load which does save quite a bit of money. For example I bought 15 bags of cypress mulch at HD for $2 a bag Saturday and it barely filled the back half of my pickup. I can go get the whole bed of the pickup filled from the county landfill for the same price.

Sometimes that isn't enough. A lot of stone centers carry mulch, top soil, fill dirt, and other material that is bought by the cubic yard (or less), but I've never priced their products other than stone. I will get a dump truck load of it probably in early spring.

The other way to get free mulch is if you ever have some trees taken down. Have the tree service leave the chipped up wood. This kind of mulch can have a lot of bigger chunks in it, but it is free (well sort of, but if you don't tell them you want the chips, they will take it with them). We had 16 trees taken down this summer and the pile of mulch left took over two weeks to spread by doing a couple hours of work each day but it does eventually disappear.

The chip pile was over 8 foot tall and probably 10 foot across. The grandkids enjoyed it briefly for "king of the hill".