Spring brings with it the need to freshen up your landscape. It is the perfect time to add new shredded bark to existing bark beds. We suggest at least 2 inches of additional shredded bark each year to help smother weeds and prevent them from sprouting. Shredded bark also helps hold moisture around the plant and prevents them from drying out. Spreading new shredded bark in your beds can help give your yard a new personality. The color and freshness of new bark helps your plants stand out in your planting beds.
Bark that decomposes over a period of time helps create a media for micro-organisms and will help increase the water holding capacity of the soil –water that helps carry nutrients to the plants. Decomposed bark and especially woodchips can deplete nitrogen in the soil; therefore adding a nitrogen fertilizer around the plants may be necessary for those plants that are mulched with shredded bark or woodchips. We found recently that pine bark may actually add some nitrogen to the soil, as well.
We carry hardwood, cedar and red bark in bulk by the cubic yard, and will be happy to load your truck or trailer.
Bark that decomposes over a period of time helps create a media for micro-organisms and will help increase the water holding capacity of the soil –water that helps carry nutrients to the plants. Decomposed bark and especially woodchips can deplete nitrogen in the soil; therefore adding a nitrogen fertilizer around the plants may be necessary for those plants that are mulched with shredded bark or woodchips. We found recently that pine bark may actually add some nitrogen to the soil, as well.
We carry hardwood, cedar and red bark in bulk by the cubic yard, and will be happy to load your truck or trailer.
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