Surrey Hills Mulch Products
Applying a mulch to garden beds provides many benefits and can be applied year-round. It’s a very cost-effective way to add or top up a covering to garden beds.
At Surrey Hills Garden Supplies, we can deliver bulk loads, small truck loads, 20kg bags or bring your ute or trailer to the yard to collect. There’s a useful calculator on our website that can assist you in calculating how much mulch you require surreyhillsgardensupplies.com.au.
Not only does applying a mulch aesthetically improve a garden but adding mulch to your garden provides many more benefits:-
- One of the biggest benefits mulches provide are adding nutrients to the soil and surrounding plants and improves soil structure;
- Prevents loss of water due to natural evaporation;
- Mulches are a perfect solution to supress weed growth and used in conjunction with Weed Matt rally-weed-control-mat eliminates weed growth;
- Reduces the amount of water required for the garden;
- Decreases garden maintenance by reducing the amount of ‘weeding time’ the gardener must put into weeding;
- In the cooler months it can help keep soil warmer so that plant growth is stimulated a little by providing a blanket-like effect;
- Improves worm populations, and
- Improves the visual aesthetics of gardens and landscapes.
Types of Mulch
Surrey Hills Garden Supplies carry 4 types of mulches:
10mm and 20mm Pine Bark mulch, Midnight Black mulch and Organic Mulch.
10mm Pine Bark
Chocolatey-brown nuggets in appearance.10mm Pine Bark is a premium product choice for “high profile” landscaping works, particularly used in plant-scape areas aiming to contrast to existing buildings. It’s also known as Cottage Bark or Tan Bark. It’s renowned for its ability not to blow or wash away, but still allows airflow to the soil, as well as being excellent at water retention. It is long lasting, has good capacity to absorb and retain moisture. Installation should be to a depth of 100mm for new applications and typically 50-75mm for “top up” installations.
10mm pine mulch is great to spread under trees and shrubs where leaves and bark fall often as it will blend into the mulch. Pine Bark does not breakdown quickly. It’s also commonly used in playgrounds under playground equipment. It should be applied to the soil surface and not dug into the soil. It’s important to keep mulches away from the stems of plants to prevent mould or fungal disease in the bark.
20mm Pine Bark
20mm Pine Bark is a larger version of the Pine Bark and brown in appearance. 20mm Pine is generally used to cover larger open areas or larger garden beds. It’s also known as Tan Bark. It is renowned for its ability not to blow or wash away, but still allows air flow to the soil, as well as being excellent at water retention. It is long lasting, has good capacity to absorb and retain moisture, and is also extremely low maintenance. Installation should be to a depth of 100mm for new applications and typically 50-75mm for “top up” installations.
20mm pine mulch is great to spread under trees and shrubs where leaves and bark fall often as it will blend into the mulch. Pine Bark does not breakdown quickly. Due to its chunky appearance, it generally spreads further making it suitable for larger garden beds. It should be applied to the soil surface and not dug into the soil. It’s important to keep mulches away from the stems of plants to prevent mould or fungal disease in the bark.
Organic Mulch
Organic Mulch is an organic product, using a controlled batch composting technique. It’s also known as Compost or Compost Mulch. Organic Mulch is dark grey to almost black in appearance when moist. The blend comprises of soft garden organics, leaves, small branches that are mulched and aged until mature. Aged super fines, aged saw dust and Urea (Nitrogen Based additive) are also added to the blend.
Organic Mulch is great for increasing the level of organic matter for any type of soil, which in turn improves moisture retention, reduces soil erosion and gives slow release of nutrients into the soil. Organic Mulch creates an ideal environment for worms and micro-organisms.
Organic mulch is used in several landscaping applications such as domestic garden beds, new garden beds, vegetable patches, landscape projects, rose gardens and ideal for garden rejuvenation. A layer of 75mm – 100mm for new gardens and between 50mm -75mm for existing gardens is recommended.
Black Midnight Mulch
Black Midnight Mulch is produced from recycled timber. The timber is produced in a grinder hammer mill free from any foreign materials as the product goes through a number of processes to remove foreign objects such as nails, staples and plastics. It is then put through a colour process using environmentally friendly products. The Longalife® coloured mulches have the added bonus of retaining colour for a substantial period than traditional mulches. It is recommended that coloured mulches are turned over with shovel or pitchfork every 6 weeks. The Black Midnight mulch is purely a decorative mulch and has no fertilising or organic properties.
Black Mulch should be applied to the soil surface and not dug into the soil. It’s important to keep mulches away from the stems of plants to prevent mould or fungal disease in the bark. A layer of 50mm – 100mm will give the best results for retaining moisture and preventing weed growth. It is recommended to wear gloves when spreading Black Mulch and laying the bulk product on a tarp when it is delivered as it’s a dyed product and will stain.
May 5, 2020