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Anyone use rubber mulch for flower beds?
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:43 am
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:43 am
What are the pros and cons?
Obviously it costs more than wood chips, but just figured there has to be a benefit to it.
Obviously it costs more than wood chips, but just figured there has to be a benefit to it.
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Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:46 am to josh336
King Leopold II approves
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:54 am to josh336
If you want something that last a little longer and has nice color look into softscape instead
Posted on 3/22/14 at 8:55 am to josh336
I'd think rubber would absorb a lot of heat drying out your bed.
FWIW, up here in Arkyland I've found out wood type mulch is better for flowers and pine straw is good for bushes. Don't know if it's the acidity or what in the straw that bushes like and flowers don't.
FWIW, up here in Arkyland I've found out wood type mulch is better for flowers and pine straw is good for bushes. Don't know if it's the acidity or what in the straw that bushes like and flowers don't.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:11 am to josh336
I am in the industry and have customers that produce both rubber and wood mulch products. The problem with rubber is it never decomposes and if you don't like the smell, heat, look of it you have to remove. Unlike wood mulches, rubber mulch has no "fines" (1/4" minus material) and thus does not work as well in weed suppression or moisture retention. I would suggest a color enriched mulch from a local bulk supplier. This product tends to have a more balanced particle size, fines and overs, as compared to a bagged product from a big box store. These mulch producers take a large percentage of fines out of their product to make it lighter and more freight friendly.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:13 am to HeadBusta4LSU
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softscape
This
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:14 am to cuyahoga tiger
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I am in the industry and have customers that produce both rubber and wood mulch products. The problem with rubber is it never decomposes and if you don't like the smell, heat, look of it you have to remove. Unlike wood mulches, rubber mulch has no "fines" (1/4" minus material) and thus does not work as well in weed suppression or moisture retention. I would suggest a color enriched mulch from a local bulk supplier. This product tends to have a more balanced particle size, fines and overs, as compared to a bagged product from a big box store. These mulch producers take a large percentage of fines out of their product to make it lighter and more freight friendly.
Who are the local bulk suppliers around BR?
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:21 am to Corn Dawg Nation
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Who are the local bulk suppliers around BR?
Check out Southern Mulch, Port Allen
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:25 am to belowmebama
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softscape
This is an extruded cypress product. It lays down and looks like pine straw. It does have a good appearance but doesn't have the weed suppression/water retention properties of a more common particle size wood mulch. Common wood mulches have different particle sizes that fill voids in the mass that still let water penetrate the mulch but suppresses weeds much better.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:27 am to josh336
Rubber mulch is terrible. The heat and smell will kill you and the plants, not to mention leeching chemicals into the soil.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:30 am to josh336
My house had rubber mulch when we moved in and the first thing we did was remove it. It was a pain in the arse and smelled awful.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:31 am to Geauxld Finger
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Rubber mulch is terrible. The heat and smell will kill you and the plants, not to mention leeching chemicals into the soil
This. And with rubber, you're kind of stuck with it unless you attempt to remove all of it. I like to till my garden every spring, then mix peat with the soil. Can't do that with rubber mulch.
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:33 am to josh336
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What are the pros and cons?
provides zero nutrients
will burn the roots in the hot summer months as it gets super hot compared to regular mulch.
This post was edited on 3/22/14 at 9:39 am
Posted on 3/22/14 at 9:41 am to oldcharlie8
Rubber mulch. What's going on in this world?
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