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Three inches is the sweet spot for Russellville beds, deep enough to slow weeds and hold moisture through August without smothering roots. Around annuals and shallow perennials, drop back to two inches.
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Three inches is the sweet spot for Russellville beds, deep enough to slow weeds and hold moisture through August without smothering roots. Around annuals and shallow perennials, drop back to two inches.
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Good quality, great price, fast delivery. All online - no submitting forms and waiting for days for quotes.
Getting mulch should be this easy fr...
Good quality, great price, fast delivery. All online - no submitting forms and waiting for days for quotes.
Getting mulch should be this easy from everyone. Only Mulch Mound is ACTUALLY this simple.
I highly recommend Mulch Mound. The quality of the mulch is very good. The ordering system on their website makes it very easy. The delivery driver...
I highly recommend Mulch Mound. The quality of the mulch is very good. The ordering system on their website makes it very easy. The delivery driver did a great job placing the mulch on the driveway. To finish off, the pricing was very reasonable as well.
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!
For Russellville's type of soil, we recommend 2-3 inches for best weed suppression and moisture retention
Try Our CalculatorMeasure each bed separately rather than guessing at the whole yard, since Russellville lots often mix a narrow foundation strip with a wide island bed. Length times width gives square feet, and the calculator turns that into cubic yards at your chosen depth. Round up about ten percent, because settling is real once the first big rain hits.
Most yards in the Russellville area sit on type of soil. Silt loam around Russellville holds moisture well but crusts over and seals off after repeated hard rains, leaving water to run across the surface instead of into the root zone. Exposed beds also lose fine particles fast on any slope.
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Double ground hardwood mulch cushions raindrop impact so the silt loam never gets a chance to seal, and as it breaks down it adds the coarse organic matter that keeps those fine particles loosely aggregated. Over two or three seasons of top dressing you get noticeably better infiltration and easier digging.
Pair your mulch order with screened topsoil or compost to rebuild tired bed soil before spreading, and add river rock or crushed stone in downspout channels where mulch would only float away.
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Water your beds thoroughly before mulching, not after. Russellville silt loam forms a surface crust when it dries, and dry mulch laid over dry crusted soil sheds the next rain instead of letting it soak in. Soak the bed, let it drain for a day, then spread. The mulch locks in that moisture and gives roots a running start before the July heat arrives.
Keep mulch off of trunks and stems. The volcano piles you see around town trap valley humidity against bark, invite borers and encourage girdling roots on maples and crapemyrtles. Pull the mulch back into a shallow saucer three to four inches from the trunk flare. You should be able to see where the trunk widens and meets the ground on every tree in your yard.
On sloped lots above the Arkansas River bottoms, stage your mulch in smaller piles along the top of the bed instead of one big dump at the bottom. Spreading downhill with a rake is far easier than shoveling uphill, and you can set your three inch depth by eye as you work. Use a leaf rake for the final pass to feather edges without pulling material off the bed.
Russellville sits in the Arkansas River Valley at about 367 feet of elevation, where roughly 50 inches of rain a year hits beds hard and fast. That volume of water moves quickly across the silt loam soils common around Prairie Creek, Sequoyah and the neighborhoods off Weir Road, washing fine particles downhill and leaving a crusted surface behind. Mulch is the buffer that absorbs raindrop impact, holds beds in place and keeps that silt where you put it. It also matters in July and August, when Zone 7b heat combines with valley humidity and shallow root zones dry out between storms. A steady mulch layer stretches the time between waterings and keeps soil temperatures under control from the last frost around April 1 through the first frost near November 3.
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