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Mulch in Houston

Nothing requires mulch to be finished before it is sold. Mulch grinding is exempt from the Texas composting rules, so a fresh grind can go out the week it was made. Fresh wood piled deep and never turned ferments, and mulch in that state can bleach and burn the plants it is spread around.

We grind wood that comes off local land-clearing and tree work, age it on this yard, water the pile through dry stretches, and screen it before it is loaded. Aged Native Mulch is the base product: indigenous trees, ground, aged three to six months and flipped twice in that time, screened through a trommel, then run through the grinder twice more and finished through a 1.5 inch screen. Black Mulch is that same aged native with a carbon-based colorant. Red Mulch is clean kiln-dried two-by-fours, sorted by hand, with an iron-based colorant, and it cannot age as long or it will not take the color.

Cedar Mulch is the one we do not grind. We buy it in finished from suppliers in Central Texas, between San Antonio and Austin. It is 100% Texas cedar and the reddish-brown is the wood itself, not a dye.

On any dyed mulch, the wood under the color is the thing to ask about. Colorants are benign. Mulch ground from construction and demolition debris can carry CCA-treated lumber, which is where arsenic in dyed mulch comes from. We do not grind treated or painted wood or plywood.