January is good time to stock pile free mulch

There's little that excites a gardener more than a good handful of good mulch.

Well, maybe it's just this gardener but it feels like a handful of lovely fluffy compost, black gold from Rolla's Recycling Center.

It's crumbly and dark, a combination of shredded fall oak leaves and chipped tree limbs and discarded Xmas trees.

In other words, great mulch!

January and February are good months to check with your local recycling center to get a mulch stock pile.

Some places charge a fee during the growing season, and often are in short supply, but you might be able to get it free this time of year.

I'm storing my mulch "stash" uphill along the edges of my property. When it's time to use it, I can easily move it into flower downhill flower beds. Some of it will move on it's own.

It will take a few months to cure before I can use it in my vegetable garden but it will be great to cover my lined garden paths this spring to minimize weeds.

 

Do you have a stock pile of mulch?

Charlotte

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