Your tree, back on your garden as mulch

Chipped on site, no cartage

Every job we do runs through the chipper as we go. Nothing sits on your lawn waiting for a second trip, and there is no green waste bin overflowing on the verge for a fortnight.

If you want the chip, we blow it straight into a pile or into your beds. If you do not, it goes on the truck and you never see it. There is no extra charge for you to keep it, which makes it the cheapest mulch you will ever get.

Why mulch matters more here than most places

Townsville soil goes from bone dry to saturated and back again. A decent layer of mulch flattens that out. It slows evaporation through the dry, stops the surface baking hard, keeps root zone temperatures down, and cuts the weeding right back. Through the wet, it protects the surface from being belted by heavy rain.

Rule of thumb: 75 to 100mm deep, and keep it back off the trunk. Mulch piled up against a trunk holds moisture on the bark, and that is how you rot the collar of a tree you were trying to help.

What we chip

• Everything from our own removals and pruning work
• Green waste piles you have already cut and stacked
• Storm debris and fallen limbs after a blow
• Site clears and vegetation management for builders and property managers
• Ongoing green waste for body corporates and commercial properties

Fresh chip or aged

Fresh chip is fine as a surface mulch on paths and around established trees. Because it draws nitrogen from the soil surface while it breaks down, do not dig it through your beds and do not plant seedlings straight into it. Let it age, or keep it on the surface where it belongs. Ask us on the day and we will tell you what your particular tree makes.