Rubber Mulch Blog

Just recently on a visit to my doctors surgery, I noticed that they had some new wooden mulch on the ground around the plants. In fact all they had done was buy some new stuff and just had it placed on top of the old and rotting mulch that was already there.

Now apart from not looking as good, because you could actually see the difference between the new and old, it is also not going to last as long. The old rotting wooden mulch underneath, will cause the new stuff to go off even quicker and the smell, the smell was bad. They had laid the new mulch and sprayed it with water and a solution to stop fungal growth, but this was not the only thing making it smell as the old mulch was quite pungent anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

Going green in the garden can be done in a number of ways. You can consider using rubber mulch, not putting any chemicals down, but using natural means of looking after your garden and getting rid of pests.

When you think about it, any little contribution that you can do that helps the environment is great, as if everyone did their little bit for the environment, the world would be a better place, not just for us, but our children and our children’s children. Read the rest of this entry »

I finally convinced my neighbors that they should have rubber mulch in their garden, but did they tell me before they went out and bought some rubber mulch? No!

I only found out when they started complaining that they thought they would only need a couple of 28lb bags of rubber mulch to put around their three trees, numerous shrubs and cover their garden path.

If only they had come to me first. I could have told them that they would need about 10 bags to do everything they wanted to do and that they didn’t have to take my word for it either, as I could have given them access to a rubber mulch calculator at Rubberecycle, which would have alleviated the shock somewhat. Read the rest of this entry »