Serving Salinas & Surrounding Areas

Live Oak, California's Landscape Supply Company

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Complete Your Live Oak Outdoor Project

We’ve got you covered with our full line of landscape supply products, from premium mulch and quality soil to decorative stone, helping you create a cohesive, professional landscape that enhances your property for years to come.

Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Deep shade under Live Oak canopies defeats most lawn seed, so stop fighting it and convert. Sheet the area with cardboard, spread three inches of fine bark, and plant shade tolerant natives like heuchera, wood fern, and coral bells directly through the layer. You get year round texture, roughly a tenth of the water use, and no more reseeding a thin patchy lawn every spring.

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Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Live Oak lots are compact, and material handling is the hard part. Ask for the drop on a tarp in the driveway rather than the street so you can sweep clean afterward, and plan to move three to four yards a day with a wheelbarrow. Order in the cool half of the year if you can. October and November deliveries let you spread comfortably and get the mulch down before winter rain.

Delivering to Live Oak, California

Primary ZIP: 95062
Mulch Mound Pro Tip

Oak roots in Live Oak yards run wide and shallow, well past the drip line, and they resent disturbance. When adding beds under a mature oak, do not till or add more than an inch or two of material over the root zone, and never build a raised bed against the trunk. Hand dig planting holes and accept a few relocations when you hit a major root.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Will mulch keep gophers out of my Live Oak beds?

No, and thick mulch can actually give them cover to work unseen. Line new raised beds with half inch hardware cloth on the bottom, and use wire baskets on individual shrubs and young trees. Mulch on top is fine, just check periodically for fresh mounds and tunnels near valued plants.

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How much mulch do I need for a small shaded yard?

At three inches deep, one cubic yard covers about one hundred square feet. A typical Live Oak side and back yard bed set runs two to four yards. Shade beds can go a little thinner, around two inches, since evaporation is lower and you want air moving through the litter layer.

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What can I plant under a Live Oak canopy that will actually survive?

Look at dry shade natives. Heuchera, western sword fern, native currant, snowberry, and Douglas iris all take low light and low summer water. Avoid thirsty shade plants like hydrangea and impatiens, which need irrigation that the oak roots will not tolerate. Water the new plantings the first two summers, then taper off.

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Live Oak stretches between Santa Cruz and Capitola with a mix of older cottages, newer infill, and generously sized backyards. Many of those lots hold big shade trees, sloped side yards, and long fence lines that need refreshing every year or two. Bulk bark and compost make quick work of that scale of project. MulchMound runs regular Live Oak deliveries along the Soquel and Portola corridors.

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