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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

24+ Cheap or Free Mulch Sources

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Mulch doesn't have to be expensive...in fact, it doesn't have to cost anything at all! In this episode I run down 24 different ideas for getting cheap or free mulch...send in yours as well! Learn More: 24 Cheap Mulch Ideas to Save Money Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to another episode. Today we're talking about cheap mulch ideas.

0:07.0

Now a lot of people have some pretty inventive ways to get cheap mulch, but I have some of my own own as well so I figured I'd share some of these

0:14.4

with you and I'm going to run through them real quick so pay attention tune in and let's go.

0:21.6

First lawn cuttings, classic source. If you have a lawn, then use these. Don't just throw them away.

0:29.1

You can actually turn them into compost if you want to, or you can just use them as mulch. If you don't have

0:36.2

a lawn why don't you use your neighbor's lawn? Neighbors grass clippings are a really good way to repurpose

0:41.0

waste products so if you have no lawn in your yard, maybe you have an entire front yard garden, which would be amazing.

0:47.0

Just see if you can use your neighbors. They'll be happy to just bag it up for you and be on your way.

0:55.7

Now we have unfinished compost.

0:57.8

So while most of us, compost to improve our soil,

1:00.4

if you have extra compost that isn't quite finished, you can just spread it across your beds and it will hold weed back pretty well.

1:07.0

Next up is unsoiled pizza boxes.

1:10.0

While I hope you don't make it a habit to consume massive quantities of pizza,

1:14.0

pizza boxes can be a great way to get free cardboard.

1:17.5

Just make sure not to use ones that have oil stains all over them.

1:20.8

Number 20, free wood chips. Why buy wood chips at the Garden Center where you can just get them for free from a bunch of different places. You should look for them from local tree services, electric companies, phone companies, etc.

1:34.8

Numbers 19 down to 15, waste products from the following sources.

1:40.1

So there are a bunch of different city departments

1:42.1

that are tasked with maintaining and cleaning public spaces.

1:44.8

On top of that, there are a few common company types that often have huge amounts of waste that they'd be happy to give away for free.

1:51.8

So here are just a few. Food processing companies,

1:54.4

obvious there. Oil press companies, street maintenance departments, solid waste departments,

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