Cedar Rapids and Surrounding area

Although mulch has many benefits, they can be summed into the following qualities:

1. Improving Soil Moisture Retention:
•Like a guardian angel, mulch guards against the ravages of evaporation, ensuring the earth retains its life-sustaining moisture. This helps your plants, shrubs, and trees keep their roots better hydrated, subsequently improving the length and quality of their lives.

2. Suppressing Weed Growth
•Invasive and disorderly weeds are difficult enough to combat. However, the good news is that by utilizing professional installation, and quality products - mulch does a good job at taming unwanted weeds, in the most natural, and ecologically conscious manner available.

3. Enhancing Soil Fertility
•Mulch decomposes over time. As it decomposes, it flaunts it's second wind by transforming itself into a biodegradable natural fertilizer. The decomposed state not only fertilizes the soil but also helps aerate the soil underneath of it - improving drainage and preventing root rot. Some types of mulch are better than others at fertilizing the soil, depending on the existing condition of the soil.
For further readings, The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has a tremendously informative article on this, that we use to help guide our recommendations, "Using Mulches in Managed Landscapes". In this article, they dive into how the varying Carbon-to-Nitrogen ratios found in products driven from different sources can impact soil fertility.

4. Protecting Plant Roots
•It gives tremendous benefits to plant and tree roots by insulating them from harsh conditions during both the summer and winter.

5. Fresh Mulch Always Looks Great
•The most commonly known benefit, is probably the enhancement that it gives your yard. Whether its a dyed, rubber, or stone mulch, most would agree that cleaner borders and character will enhance your curb appeal.