A: The absolute best mulch is hardwood chips from an arborist’s truck. The second-best mulch is pine chips with needles, and the third-best mulch for an oak tree is mixed wood chips and leaves.

Arborists’ wood chips have been used since April 2020. This mulch provides a non-uniform combination of wood chips, bark, and leaves, which decompose at different rates and encourage a diversity ...

This column is written by the UC Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that ...

“Fall is a great time to be out in the yard spreading shovels-full of composted wood-chip mulch under your trees.” said Tchukki Andersen, BCMA, CTSP and staff arborist with the Tree Care ...

Applying mulch to bare areas around your landscape and surrounding your trees is best practice, offering benefits such as water retention and temperature regulation. Most of the commercially ...

Arborist Linda Chalker-Scott ... ‘If something’s wrong in your landscape, the answer is wood chip mulch.’” Should we pick our homegrown tomatoes when they’re green?

Merle Need, Canton/Cartersville A: Arborist wood chips are one ... you’re left with mulch. You could use pine or hardwood chips, but they cost money and don’t match the tree’s color.

Surface mulching with a three-to-four-inch-thick layer of fresh, raw, coarse tree chip mulch is one of the most ... is an ASCA registered consulting arborist and an ISA certified arborist.