[Arid_gardener] bulk bark mulch

[Dick]

Try lumber mills in Northern and Eastern Arizona where, however, you would have to purchase it by the cubic yard. Lease your own truck and make a joint agreement with one of the independent nurseries or a landscape company to purchase and stock the product. If there is a market for pine bark, there is surely a mill somewhere that would like to supply it. There is a fairly decent lunber industry in Arizona or was until a few years ago. I supplied lubricants to a lumber mill in East Arizona when working for Unocal. I remember my fascination for watching a debarker, an awesome machine. 

My personal preference for ground cover is one-inch crushed granite three inches deep with no plastic beneath it.

Dick Gross, Master Gardener Volunteer
University of Arizona Maricopa County
Cooperative Extension.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tyler Storey 
  To: arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:26 PM
  Subject: [Arid_gardener] bulk bark mulch


  Howdy all,

  Having successfully demonstrated to my clients that an organic mulch is better for a xeric landscape than hot and ugly rock, I now have a problem: the availability of bulk organic material here in the Phoenix area is limited.  Western Organics (now Gro-well) has a number of shredded mulches, but no really attractive one for a large-scale space.  They also carry the mini-bark mulch I and my clients are looking for, but only bagged, not bulk.  Very expensive, and what do you do with the 375 empty plastic bags?  Does anyone know of a local source for bulk decorative ground-cover bark, preferably ½ inch pine bark?  

  Thanks much,

  Tyler

   

  tyler at tylerstorey.com

  http://tylerstorey.com

  602-738-2978

   



------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  Arid_gardener mailing list
  Arid_gardener at CALS.arizona.edu
  http://CALS.arizona.edu/mailman2/listinfo/arid_gardener
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://CALS.arizona.edu/pipermail/arid_gardener/attachments/20071012/025fcae7/attachment-0001.html