Great article Chris! We buy mulch from a local company every spring and have it delivered by dump truck in 3 yard quantities, their minimum for delivery. Three yards is a big pile of mulch and it's sometimes a pain having to shovel it from the huge pile into wheelbarrows to move about the garden for spreading ... but I can't imagine not using mulch. When HD has bark mulch on sale during the year I will buy a few bags of that too ... if the bags are dry they are fairly easy to lift and move to where you want to dump them. We have friends with lots of live oak trees and they bag the leaves and put them out on the curb for yard trash pick up ... so I get lots of free oak leaf mulch when I want it too. I miss having pine trees ... the Azalea's and Gardenia's loved the acid from pine mulch.
