@drdawg
>>>>This sounds like a good compromise, Lyn
Thank you for the confirmation. I haven't heard back from anyone else that I contacted up here.
I have to go out and gather my mulch materials and bring them back and then haul them up to the house pad level. I get the leaves from a friend's property and the wood chips from the utility company's chipping pile from where they have removed branches of trees under the electric lines. (I screen out the big pieces) It's a lot of work, but I can't buy mulch materials up here.
The high summer temps seem to "eat" mulch, so it's always an ongoing project.
Smiles,
Lyn