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cutting down trees for Virginia Power. They give away mulch for free. Of course, you have to take a whole truckload, but what the heck?
Addendum to Tip Number 2: Do not tell your spouse it is coming. This is sometimes dangerous, but what are they going to do ... carry it away in the back of the Volvo? Of course not. It’s a done deal. You put up with a few days of dead silence and burnt pork chops but they get over it, trust me.
Also, don’t volunteer the information that you won’t be able to use the mulch for three or four months because if you put brand new shredded and chunked mulch too near plants it will kill them faster than you can say “pieris japonica.” Something about tannins in the wood that have to age.
Oh yes, another caution.
Do not have the stuff dumped on the driveway while your spouse’s car is in the garage.
OK, so now you’ve got that great load of free mulch in the driveway, and you get a call from some guy out in The Plains who’s heard you might need some manure.
No problem.
There is no rule against multiple piles.
At one point last year, I had three piles of mulch, six tons of sand, 13 yards of leaf mold (yes, I confess I had to pay for that but Meadows Farms does discount the stuff when it comes by the truck), two piles of fill dirt and a half-truckload of gravel.
Tip Number 3. A little ingenuity
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