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Mulch for the People

9/25/2014

 
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Mulch—woody material that exits the arborist’s shredder—is good for gardens. It slows evaporation and soaks water to avoid runoff, thus conserving water. It cools the soil, allowing worms to congregate and enrich it. It insulates the soil from the sun, discouraging weeds. What gardener wouldn’t like to use quantities of mulch? Apply a thick layer!
 
While you can buy mulch at garden centers, that thick layer around your plants and on pathways and on your lawn for lawn removal will cost you. A better way is the sharing way. Arborists spend their days trimming trees and shredding that trimmed material. To dispose of this material as waste, they must drive to a landfill and pay a dumping fee. How wasteful! Why can’t they drive to a designated location and offload the mulch there, so that you and I can load it up for free and take it home for our gardens? That’s sharing!
 
Such a program will be the topic of State of the Mulch, an evening for all stakeholders to work out possible problems and create a program in Pasadena to benefit all. Worried about the drought? Bring your ideas. Yes, there will be refreshments.

Please join us on October 8, 2014, 7:00 pm at Wright Auditorium, Pasadena Central Library, 285 East Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA, 91101. Park on the street, not in the library lot, please.

— Lin Griffith


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