The website to order is super easy to use. Pick a mulch, date/time/driveway location of the delivery and that’s it. A few days later there was a nice mound of mulch in my driveway. Great service - just as promised.
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Compost is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth. Lawn top dressing only needs that thin 1 inch layer, so a single yard goes a long way across a typical Akron lot. Bed prep is different, tilling in 2 to 3 inches means you will use two to three times that volume for the same square footage, so measure your beds separately from your lawn before ordering.
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The website to order is super easy to use. Pick a mulch, date/time/driveway location of the delivery and that’s it. A few days later there was a nice mound of mulch in my driveway. Great service - just as promised.
Compost is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth. Lawn top dressing only needs that thin 1 inch layer, so a single yard goes a long way across a typical Akron lot. Bed prep is different, tilling in 2 to 3 inches means you will use two to three times that volume for the same square footage, so measure your beds separately from your lawn before ordering.
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Adjust the quantity to match your project. One cubic yard covers about 100 to 160 square feet at a 2 to 3 inch depth.
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The website to order is super easy to use. Pick a mulch, date/time/driveway location of the delivery and that’s it. A few days later there was a ni...
The website to order is super easy to use. Pick a mulch, date/time/driveway location of the delivery and that’s it. A few days later there was a nice mound of mulch in my driveway. Great service - just as promised.
This was the easiest process to purchase mulch! It arrived on time and the driver did an amazing job putting it exactly where I wanted it. I will b...
This was the easiest process to purchase mulch! It arrived on time and the driver did an amazing job putting it exactly where I wanted it. I will be a return customer for sure.
Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all co...
Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
Compost pairs naturally with a topsoil blend when you are building a new bed from scratch, since the compost feeds the soil while the topsoil gives it bulk. For lawns, many people follow a compost top dress with a layer of mulch around trees and borders to lock in moisture through the summer stretch. If you are amending clay loam heavily, a load of coarse sand or expanded shale alongside the compost helps drainage even more.
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Finished compost should smell like earth, not sour or ammonia sharp, if it smells off it was not cured long enough and can actually stress plants instead of feeding them. In Akron's clay loam, work it into the top 4 to 6 inches rather than just laying it on the surface of a new bed, otherwise it sits as a separate layer and the clay underneath stays just as compacted as before you started.
The biggest mistake we see is piling compost on thick thinking more equals faster results. More than 3 inches tilled into a bed, or more than 1 inch top dressed on a lawn, can actually lock up nitrogen temporarily while microbes work through the extra organic matter. Thin and repeated applications across spring and fall beat one heavy dump every time, especially in a soil that already drains slowly.
Compost is heavier than most bulk materials at roughly 0.65 tons per yard, so a load that looks modest on the calculator is still a serious amount of weight to move by hand. If you are doing a large bed renovation, it is worth pairing the delivery with wheelbarrow trips planned in advance rather than trying to shovel a full yard in one afternoon, especially once it has absorbed any rain.
Akron soil runs heavy clay loam, which drains slow and compacts easy, especially on the older lots around the Rubber City's established neighborhoods. Compost is the fix, it loosens that structure over a season or two of tilling in, giving roots somewhere to spread instead of fighting a dense subsoil. With a growing zone of 6a and a frost window that runs early October to early May, there is a real spring and fall stretch to get organic matter into beds before planting or before the ground closes up. People here use it to rebuild vegetable beds, top dress lawns thinned out by clay drainage issues, and prep new landscaping around foundations.
Finished compost is organic matter that has fully broken down into a dark, crumbly material with an earthy smell. It feeds soil life, improves structure, and helps beds hold water without staying soggy.
Work 1 to 2 inches into new beds, or topdress lawns with a quarter to half inch and rake it in. More is not better. Too thick a layer can smother roots instead of feeding them.
Spring and fall are both good windows. Spring applications feed the growing season ahead, and fall applications break down over winter so beds are ready at first thaw.
