The Boulder CU campus uses Western Red Cedar mulch around
flower beds and trees. Deliveries arrived
this week and the mulching began all over campus. Of course, I had to ask, how much mulch will
CU mulch and why Western Red Cedar?
Putting down mulch is nothing new to those of us with landscaped yards. We’ve been told that mulch helps conserve moisture, reduces weed growth and overall just makes the flower beds and trees look great. But there is another side of mulching with red cedar. It doesn't decompose as quickly as other mulch. So what CU puts down will last longer.
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| Bertie Knowles and Adrian Francis deliver mulch |
So how much mulch does CU mulch? A quick estimate is around 330 yards. Scott Redder, Outdoor Services Main Campus Supervisor, helped me look at it another way. It would take 18 tandem dump trucks lined up end-to-end to deliver that much mulch. Fortunately, Scott spreads his deliveries out over the year with the bulk of it arriving in Spring.
Marsha
