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Three inches is the target for established Mentor beds, which holds moisture through the July dry spells without suffocating roots. Go two inches around shallow rooted azaleas and rhododendrons that do well in our acidic silt loam.
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I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on time delivery, to perfect product placement was amazing. I needed more and I got it within 2 hours! I'm never doing this with ba...
Three inches is the target for established Mentor beds, which holds moisture through the July dry spells without suffocating roots. Go two inches around shallow rooted azaleas and rhododendrons that do well in our acidic silt loam.
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I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on...
I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on time delivery, to perfect product placement was amazing. I needed more and I got it within 2 hours! I'm never doing this with bags again.
We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. ...
We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. We are impressed with the quality of the mulch, too! It is covering well - a great value!
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For Mentor's type of soil, we recommend 2-3 inches for best weed suppression and moisture retention
Try Our CalculatorBreak your yard into rectangles and circles instead of trying to measure one odd shape, because most Mentor beds curve around a front walk or a maple. Multiply length by width for each piece, add them up, then enter that total square footage and your target depth. One cubic yard covers about 108 square feet at three inches deep.
Most yards in the Mentor area sit on type of soil. Mentor's silt loam holds nutrients and moisture beautifully, but it also compacts under foot traffic and crusts over after hard rain, which chokes off air to shrub roots. Beds that get walked on or hit by roof runoff turn dense and shed water instead of absorbing it.
Hardwood Mulch
Shredded hardwood mulch is the best answer for Mentor silt loam because as it decomposes it feeds earthworms and fungi that build crumb structure and open up pore space. Over two or three seasons of annual top dressing you will notice the top few inches drain faster, dig easier, and hold roots better.
Pair your mulch with a few yards of screened topsoil or compost to build up tired beds before you spread, and add edging stone to hold the mulch line against heavy runoff. Many Mentor customers order mulch and a small load of river rock for downspout splash zones on the same delivery.
Time your spread to the weather, not the calendar. Mentor gets frequent spring rains off the lake, and spreading mulch onto already moist silt loam locks that moisture in for weeks. Spread a day or two after a soaking rain, never onto bone dry ground, and never during a downpour when wheelbarrow traffic will rut your lawn and compact the very soil you are trying to protect.
Pull mulch back from trunks and stems every single time. Volcano mulching around maples and crabapples is the most common mistake in Mentor neighborhoods, and it is especially damaging here because our wet climate keeps that piled material saturated against the bark. Leave a bare three to four inch collar at the base of every tree and shrub so the root flare stays visible and dry.
Edge before you mulch, not after. Cut a clean four inch deep trench at the bed line with a spade, angling the cut so the bed side is vertical. In Mentor's silt loam that trench holds its shape all season and catches mulch that heavy rain tries to float onto the lawn. It also gives you a crisp finish line that makes an average mulch job look professional.
Mentor sits in USDA Zone 6b just a few miles from Lake Erie, and that lake influence gives yards here long, damp springs and freeze thaw cycles that can heave shallow rooted shrubs right out of the ground. The silt loam that covers most of Mentor holds water well but crusts over and compacts when it is worked wet or pounded by rain, which is exactly what happens across the 39 inches of precipitation the city averages each year. A three inch mulch blanket takes the impact of that rainfall, stops the crusting, and keeps the soil surface open so water soaks in instead of sheeting off toward the driveway. Mulch also buffers root zones through the stretch between the October 24 first frost and the April 28 last frost, when bare silt loam swings between frozen and thawed repeatedly. In the growing season it slows evaporation during the dry mid summer weeks that often follow a very wet June. For most Mentor homeowners, mulch is the single cheapest way to make silt loam behave like good garden soil.
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