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Red bark mulch/chippings

Ragnar Lothbrok · 2020-03-12 17:54:08

Is this available anymore? Tried Woodies, B&Q, etc, and can only find brown bark. I checked online to see if anywhere in Ireland has it, and there only seem to be large quantities available (eg 0.5m3) which is far more than I need (two to three bags would do me). Also, I read that bark chippings should be laid without…

12-03-2020 6:54pm

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Ragnar Lothbrok

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Is this available anymore? Tried Woodies, B&Q, etc, and can only find brown bark. I checked online to see if anywhere in Ireland has it, and there only seem to be large quantities available (eg 0.5m3) which is far more than I need (two to three bags would do me).

Also, I read that bark chippings should be laid without using weed control membrane. I would have put down a membrane before I put the bark down, but now I'm not sure.

Any advice?

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#2 16-03-2020 12:29pm

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I may be wrong, but I think that if you lay the bark mulch thickly enough it will do the same job as the membrane, suppressing the weeds by excluding light. Mulches were used for weed suppression long before plastic membrane was invented

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