Check off one thing, totally ready growmies.
Check off one thing, totally ready growmies.
1.3 yards to fill the entire 3’x40’ flower bed. Cedar mulch.
I live vicariously though your gardening posts.
I was doing the same here until the snow left haha.
growmies is an adorable term and I'm here for it.
Western redcedar (Thuja plicata, I'm pretty sure)?
I don't want to be a downer, but if it is you might be in trouble. Redcedar is allelopathic, meaning it contains chemicals that kill other plants. It would make a great suppressive landscape mulch, but a bad garden mulch.
Never heard of that before, website says it’s great for tree and shrub beds.
Got a source for that?
Sure. And thanks for questioning me. It looks like the conventional wisdom may be rooted in something, but likely not allelopathy.
https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/aleopathic-wood-chips.pdf
Sounds like it'll mess with insects, bacteria, and fungus, but it's likely not chemically allelopathic. Also, plant life is certainly repressed near living redcedars, but that's likely due to something else like low light.