If you garden, need mulch and don't want to pay $10 an ounce at your local hardware, take the biggest car or truck you can borrow down to Sawdust Supply (under the West Seattle Freeway). They have pre-bagged mulch in several varieties (including a bark + municipal water treatment sludge mixture for the recycling-minded) for less than half the cost of the big box stores. If you use a lot, they also deliver bulk (by the yard). I recommend the SteerCo mix - half ground bark and half steer manure - great natural weed control plus soil amendment rolled into one.
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