Q: My huge red oak tumbled ... Can I use this to mulch beds, around trees and in low places left by tractor treads? A: Yes, you can use it as mulch. But keep in mind wood chips may borrow nitrogen ...

Black, brown, red, cypress, hardwood ... Arborists’ wood chips have been used since April 2020. This mulch provides a non-uniform combination of wood chips, bark, and leaves, which decompose ...

The concern with nitrogen deficiency, for example, applies only in the top inches of soil just beneath the mulch. As long as gardeners avoid using wood chips on plants with shallow root systems ...