wholesale prices on bags of mulch in Austin?

[ballrific]

Need to grab about 100 bags of mulch and thought there would be some places in town that would have wholesale prices so I don't have to pay Home Depot/Lowes prices but haven't found anything online.

Any suggestions?

 

[Orange&White]

Why does it have to be in bags? Can't you buy it by the truckload and have it dumped on your driveway?

 

[longyak]

Buy it by the cubic yard from a nursery instead of by the bag.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

The Natural Gardener.
The Link

 

[brntorng]

100 bags is about 4-8 cubic yards depending on the bag size which screams for bulk delivery. That's not a truck full so see if any neighbors need some and split the delivery charge to save a few more bucks. Depending on the type of mulch you're looking for there may be lower priced options for bulk delivery than Natural Gardener. Don't get me wrong, they're a great source and I've bought from them before when I needed smaller quantities. Look in the Yellow Pages or YellowPages.com under "Topsoil" to get a list of local suppliers. I just got 15 yards of Dillo Dirt delivered from Advanced Organic Materials and couldn't have been happier with the price and service.

 

[ballrific]

I think the kind of mulch ive used in the past is that Texas Native Hardwood mulch. I guess I thought bags would be the easiest to transport since i dont have a truck and I don't really want to get out there and fill ~100 bags on my own...

 

[brntorng]

BTW, how well does that mulch hold up? I don't have as much to do and have always gotten the bagged Cypress mulch which seems to hold up fairly well--at least a couple of years.

 

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[TexasEd]

Take a pickup to Austin Wood Recycling on RM 1431 between Cedar Park and I-35. They dump a load of the exact same stuff you get in the bags loose into your bed. I once did the math and think figured it was about 50% off this way.

 

[_e.]

I think you have a Gardenville in Austin, they willl deliver. Please don't buy Cypress mulch; it is an unsustainable crop and wetlands along the Gulf coast are destroyed to harvest it.
save our cypress

 

[ballrific]

it holds up ok but it gets scorched in the summers, so you should replace it every year, I just don't have time to and I'm finally getting around to it.

What I meant by filling up the bags is some places have mounds of it in their lots and you can take what you need and they charge you by the bag. I wasn't about to do that.

Thanks for the other ideas, I'm totally ok with them dumping it on my driveway...

 

[bozo_casanova]

ballrific,

Cypress mulch sucks. use shredded native cedar. It's the best general purpose mulch there is.
Get it delivered in bulk. All of the sources mentioned above are good.

 

[longyak]

A dump truck is 12 yards but they will delivery however many yards you want plus the delivery fee.

 

[ballrific]

Bozo, are you saying Texas Native Hardwood mulch is cypress? I don't think it is...