They offered a quick turnaround and delivered high quality mulch at a reasonable price. They also dropped it off exactly where I told them to put it. Good service!
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Three inches is the sweet spot for beds in sandy loam, deep enough to slow evaporation without smothering shallow roots. One cubic yard covers roughly 108 square feet at that depth.
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They offered a quick turnaround and delivered high quality mulch at a reasonable price. They also dropped it off exactly where I told them to put it. Good service!
Three inches is the sweet spot for beds in sandy loam, deep enough to slow evaporation without smothering shallow roots. One cubic yard covers roughly 108 square feet at that depth.
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They offered a quick turnaround and delivered high quality mulch at a reasonable price. They also dropped it off exactly where I told them to put i...
They offered a quick turnaround and delivered high quality mulch at a reasonable price. They also dropped it off exactly where I told them to put it. Good service!
Easy to order, arrived when it was to arrive. Mulch was beautiful! Couldn’t be easier!
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.
For Lexington Park's type of soil, we recommend 2-3 inches for best weed suppression and moisture retention
Try Our CalculatorMeasure each bed separately, length times width in feet, and add the totals rather than guessing at the whole yard. Curved beds around a Lexington Park foundation are easier to handle if you break them into rectangles and half circles. Enter the square footage and your target depth and the calculator returns cubic yards.
Most yards in the Lexington Park area sit on type of soil. Sandy loam in Lexington Park drains so freely that nutrients and moisture slip below the root zone within a day of a good rain, leaving shrubs stressed even in a wet summer. Beds built on this soil need a covering that slows that flow.
Hardwood Mulch
Double shredded hardwood knits together into a mat that resists washout during summer downpours, and as it breaks down it feeds humus directly into the sandy loam, gradually building the moisture holding structure the soil lacks on its own.
Pair your mulch with a few yards of compost or garden soil worked in first, and add crushed stone for the walkways and drip lines where mulch tends to wash out. Steel or poly edging keeps everything in place through heavy rain.
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Rake and fluff last year's mulch before adding new material. Sandy loam beds in Lexington Park often develop a matted crust on top after a season of hard rain, and that crust actually sheds water rather than absorbing it. Break it up with a hard rake, then add just an inch of fresh mulch. You get the same look for a third of the material and your plants get water that actually reaches the roots.
Pull mulch back from trunks and stems before you spread. Volcano mulching around crape myrtles and river birches is common in local neighborhoods and it slowly rots the bark at the collar. Leave a three inch gap of bare soil around every trunk. In our humid summers that small air gap prevents the constant moisture contact that invites bark decay and boring insects.
Water your beds thoroughly before mulching, not after. Dry sandy loam repels water at first contact, and a fresh mulch layer on top of dry soil can keep it dry for weeks. Soak the beds the evening before, spread in the morning while soil is still damp, and the mulch locks that moisture in right where the roots are working.
Lexington Park sits on the St. Mary's peninsula where sandy loam drains fast and 43 inches of annual rain moves straight through the root zone instead of lingering where plants can use it. Mulch is the correction for that, holding moisture in the top few inches of soil during the humid, sticky stretch from late June through August when afternoon storms roll off the Patuxent and then evaporate within hours. A steady mulch layer also buffers beds against the salt air and steady wind that come with living this close to the river and the Bay. Because the growing window here runs long, from an April 5 last frost to a November 5 first frost, weed pressure lasts seven months and bare sandy loam invites crabgrass and nutsedge all season. In Zone 8a the ground rarely stays frozen, so mulch works year round rather than as a winter blanket only. Homeowners in Great Mills, California, and the neighborhoods around Pax River all see the same pattern, beds that dry out and wash thin without a maintained mulch layer.
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