Mulches: Part 2 Fillers, Cubic Yards & Scoops

The calls come in to our Garden Center & Nursery by the hundreds everyday: Do you sell mulch? How much is it a scoop? Is it bagged? Do you deliver? What's a cubic yard? Is it treated?"

We don't sell treated mulch, because it's sprayed with herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, which keep weed, insect and mushroom growth to a minimum, but can be toxic to human and household pet health.

A scoop is a scoop; who knows what volume you're getting? A noted garden center chain store offers mulch for $18 a scoop. That's only half a yard:at a full yard rate it's easily the most expensive mulch in York County. We sell 27 CuFt (2 scoops of our JD Skid Loader bucket) for $28 picked-up, $33 delivered within 10 miles. Some sub-standard mulch vendors sell scoops for as much as $20-$22; calculate for yourself it's expensive!

Most places that sell mulch in York County sell double- shredded hardwood mulch; the third worst kind you can buy, next to cocoa bean mulch and any pine bark chips, both of which float and blow away in a rain storm and get fungus. Fungus comes from mushroom compost being added as a filler, which also means you're not getting a true cubic yard of mulch; they've bulked it up with fillers. It's scary what people use as fillers: a local paper mill company in Spring Grove tries to sell their toxic by-products mixed-in with mulch; we're not buying that lie either.

We sell only Premium Shredded Dark-Bark Mulch, the finest type anywhere. It is the bark only, double-shredded, does not float or blow away, is not treated, stays dark all year, is great for banks and hills, gets no fungus, has no insect problems and is competitively-priced with any around.

Beware the mulch vendors! They rip you off at every turn. Ask hard questions about what you're buying, the volume. treatments, fillers etc. Then come to us for an honest cubic yard of the finest quality mulch.