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Plan on 3 inches of depth for most Fortuna Foothills beds, which covers about 108 square feet per cubic yard. Push to 4 inches on west and south facing exposures where the afternoon sun is brutal.
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Great experience! Easy to order, they delivered promptly and were very respectful of the property! Ordered the triple shredded brown mulch and it was EXACTLY what I wanted. Very clean product too, no garbage or filler. Already put these guys in my calendar to order from next y...
Plan on 3 inches of depth for most Fortuna Foothills beds, which covers about 108 square feet per cubic yard. Push to 4 inches on west and south facing exposures where the afternoon sun is brutal.
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Great experience! Easy to order, they delivered promptly and were very respectful of the property! Ordered the triple shredded brown mulch and it w...
Great experience! Easy to order, they delivered promptly and were very respectful of the property! Ordered the triple shredded brown mulch and it was EXACTLY what I wanted. Very clean product too, no garbage or filler. Already put these guys in my calendar to order from next year! Keep up the good work.
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For Fortuna Foothills's type of soil, we recommend 2-3 inches for best weed suppression and moisture retention
Try Our CalculatorMeasure each bed as a simple rectangle or circle and multiply length by width in feet to get square footage, adding the shapes together for the total. For odd curved beds along a driveway, round up rather than down, because coming up half a yard short means a second delivery fee. Enter the total square footage and your target depth and the calculator does the cubic yard math for you.
Most yards in the Fortuna Foothills area sit on type of soil. The sandy loam across Fortuna Foothills drains beautifully, which sounds ideal until you realize water passes straight through the root zone before plants can use it, carrying dissolved nutrients down with it. Beds on this soil need constant replenishment of both moisture and organic matter to support anything beyond established desert species.
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Shredded hardwood mulch is the best answer for this soil because it mats down into a dense layer that resists wind and slowly feeds fine organic particles into the sand below. Over a few seasons that added organic matter measurably improves how long Fortuna Foothills sandy loam holds water between drip cycles.
Many customers pair mulch with a few yards of compost or garden soil worked into the beds first, plus decorative rock for the foundation band and pathways. Landscape edging keeps the mulch from migrating into your gravel areas during monsoon runoff.
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Water the bed thoroughly before you spread mulch, not after. Dry sandy loam under a fresh 3 inch layer can stay dry for weeks because the mulch intercepts light irrigation before it ever reaches soil. Run your drip a full cycle, let it soak in, then spread. From that point forward the mulch is holding moisture in rather than keeping it out, and your plants never go through a dry transition.
Do not remove old mulch when you refresh. That bottom layer, partially broken down and full of fines, is the closest thing to real topsoil that sandy loam beds in Fortuna Foothills will ever build. Just rake the surface to break up any crust, then top with an inch or two of fresh material to restore color and depth. You are building soil, one thin layer per year.
Use mulch depth strategically by exposure. North facing beds along the house stay comparatively cool and 2 inches is plenty. West facing beds that take full afternoon sun from two in the afternoon until sunset benefit from a full 4 inches. Walk your property at four in the afternoon in June and note where the sun is hitting. Those are the areas that need the deepest coverage.
Fortuna Foothills sits in the lower Gila Valley at roughly 345 feet of elevation, where summer afternoons regularly push past 110 degrees and the soil surface can hit temperatures that cook shallow roots outright. With barely 3 inches of rain in an average year, every drop that lands on your beds or comes out of your drip emitters is precious, and bare sandy loam lets it evaporate within hours. A 3 inch mulch blanket drops root zone temperatures dramatically, slows evaporation, and keeps the fast draining soil around your citrus, oleander, and desert accent plantings from swinging between soaked and bone dry. Mulch also shields sandy loam from the crusting and blowing that comes with spring wind events off the desert flats. In a Zone 10a climate with no real frost season, plants here grow nearly year round, so the steady moisture and cooler soil that mulch provides pays off in all twelve months, not just summer.
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