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Three inches is the target depth for Smithfield beds, which means one cubic yard covers about 108 square feet. Around shallow rooted shrubs and new plantings, hold at two inches so you do not smother crowns.
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We needed mulch for our HOA common areas. Local providers were all holding high prices even for 40 yards of mulch. Mulch mound was easy to wowith & has great price for natural mulch + delivery schedule options. They called before delivery to ensure Delivery was exactly wher...
Three inches is the target depth for Smithfield beds, which means one cubic yard covers about 108 square feet. Around shallow rooted shrubs and new plantings, hold at two inches so you do not smother crowns.
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We needed mulch for our HOA common areas. Local providers were all holding high prices even for 40 yards of mulch. Mulch mound was easy to wowith...
We needed mulch for our HOA common areas. Local providers were all holding high prices even for 40 yards of mulch. Mulch mound was easy to wowith & has great price for natural mulch + delivery schedule options. They called before delivery to ensure Delivery was exactly where we wanted it.
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Delivery was on time and great quality Mulch. Got it done in a reasonable time and yard looks great. Couldn’t be happier!!! Thank you and will use again!!
Mulch Mound delivered a yard of pea gravel to us. Delivery was on time, driver was friendly and hit a bullseye on the “tarp target”. We used the ...
Mulch Mound delivered a yard of pea gravel to us. Delivery was on time, driver was friendly and hit a bullseye on the “tarp target”. We used the pea gravel (which was diameter as specified) to fill several muskrat holes around our pond. I would definitely recommend Mulch Mound to a friend!
For Smithfield's type of soil, we recommend 2-3 inches for best weed suppression and moisture retention
Try Our CalculatorSketch your beds and break odd shapes into rectangles, circles, and triangles rather than eyeballing the whole thing. For curved bench lot beds, measure the widest and narrowest points and average them. Enter three inches as your depth and add ten percent if your ground slopes, because material always settles downhill.
Most yards in the Smithfield area sit on type of soil. Smithfield's silt loam holds water well but packs tight and forms a hard surface crust once it dries, which chokes air from the root zone and sends sprinkler water running off instead of soaking in. Plant beds in that condition struggle even when they are watered on schedule.
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Shredded hardwood mulch shields silt loam from that impact and keeps the top inches soft and workable while it slowly feeds organic matter into a soil that is naturally short on it. Over three or four seasons that steady breakdown improves structure and infiltration, which matters a lot in a valley that gets most of its water from a sprinkler head.
Pair mulch with a few yards of compost or garden soil worked into the beds first, since our silt loam benefits from organic matter before the mulch cap goes on. Steel or poly edging keeps mulch from washing onto walks during spring runoff off the bench.
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Water your beds thoroughly the day before mulch arrives. Dry Smithfield silt loam is slow to wet, and a three inch mulch layer over bone dry ground will keep light irrigation from ever reaching the root zone. Soak the soil first, then spread. From then on, run drip lines under the mulch rather than sprinklers over it, and you will cut summer watering noticeably while keeping the surface moisture the top roots depend on.
Time your fall mulching for the last week of September or the first days of October, just ahead of the October 5 average first frost. The goal is to insulate soil that is still holding warmth, not to trap cold ground. This slows the freeze and thaw cycling that heaves perennials and strawberries out of Cache Valley silt loam, and it protects shallow roots through the long stretch of frozen weeks that follow.
Never build a mulch volcano against a trunk. Smithfield yards carry a lot of maples, lindens, and older fruit trees, and mounding mulch on bark traps moisture, invites rot, and gives voles winter cover right at the base. Spread a flat, even donut instead, starting three to four inches out from the trunk and running to the drip line where the feeder roots actually live.
Smithfield sits at 4,636 feet on the Cache Valley bench, and the 19 inches of moisture we get each year mostly arrives as winter snow rather than summer rain. That leaves June through September bone dry, when beds along Main Street and up toward the Smithfield Canyon trailhead lose water faster than most homeowners can replace it. A three inch mulch layer slows that loss dramatically and keeps the silt loam underneath from crusting over in the afternoon sun. Mulch also buffers the wild temperature swings we see in Zone 6a, where a May afternoon can hit 80 degrees and the night can still drop near freezing before the May 5 last frost date. Come October, that same layer insulates root zones against the first hard freeze around October 5 and the long cold that follows. In a valley this dry and this exposed, mulch is not decoration, it is the cheapest irrigation upgrade available.
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