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Beacon Hill crisis averted; city bows to residents' demands
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Spongified!
Made from the carcasses of numerous shredded Barney the Purple Dinosaurs. Pure evil!
I'll bite
What is the issue with this mulch? (Unless it is that deadly sort? Isn't all mulch the deadly sort?)
Several Issues
While it was put there to prevent bark beetles from attacking roots (a plus), synthetic mulch is sometimes made of questionable feed material and can degrade to release toxics.
It also doesn't decay like normal mulch, meaning that it prevents nutrients from getting to the tree roots, which have to get most of their nourishment from the tree pits as they are mostly under the sidewalks.
Got it
Would natural mulch be better, or no mulch? (I once temped for a tree place, but it was only a week, and clearly I didn't pick up much. Probably because I was answering phones in the office. :) )
OK Swirly
*whew* we agree for once.
Yeah I saw this and synthetic mulch kind of defeats the purpose anyways. Mulch is more for nutrients, not for aesthetics. (Although I love the nice wood smell when its first put out)
Of course now everyone thinks its for aesthetics when its not the case.
And yeah I agree with it leaking questionable things into the water system. But then again, many flower beds use black plastic under the mulch to help with weeds.
Mulch provides very little in
Mulch provides very little in the way of nutrients. The primary reason for mulching is to hold moisture in the soil. In this case, I don't know about the bark beetles.
It's nasty
It completely prevents a neighbor from "adopting" the tree pit and planting flowers in it.
And it probably costs a lot of money.
And it looks like crap.