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Cool like I've been trying to say in this thread I am not professing to know much about this at all. Zero experience mulching is why I'm asking alot of questions and doing alot of reading before embarking on a course of action which may not be the best way to do something. Thanks all you guys...

Thanks for the info Brendon and wow nice place.8)

That's what I'm looking for my first mulching will be this year. I ain't gonna risk messing it up. Books and you guys are the only access I have to info. Unless I want to pry the minds of other cert'd arbs around here who still top and do flush cuts.:|:

Fresh chips? I've read that can cause nitrogen deficiencies which is easy enough to overcome with fertilizing. Just curious.

See now I'm learning. Cool I will partake of physical and biological warfare on the grass and save myself the agony's of dealing with a barrier. What you and Willie mentioned makes perfect sense and you guys are right while the tree would still be receiving many of the benefits of mulch it...

Now that's the kind of advice I'm looking for, I see so maybe obliterate the grass with my weedeater or something chew it right up bigtime and then just mulch over top of that. I mean heh I have no desire to buy and install landscaping fabric if I don't have to. What would you spray it with?:/:

I hear what you're saying but what I'm talking about is the first six months when the existing grass goes, 'oh yah mulch thanks' and grows right up like crazy, will it be hard on the roots of the grass or the tree? I honestly don't know, I'm assuming that it would be a real advantage in...

Hmm you're not following me and I'm not really following your last post there either I'm going to completly smother the grass not the tree as well, the grass should die because it will be buried no more light no more photosynthesis to grow I'm not going to kill it by the roots up. And I...

So you'd just put the mulch right over the grass? That's the other way I'm considering and then just controlling whatever grass does grow through. A couple books that I read have recommended plastic with holes poked in or landscaping fabric to control weed growth. But I also read that...

Ok in the reading I've done on applying mulch to mature/existing trees is it basically says to just go ahead and add a 2 to 3 inch layer on top of the existing surface without having it right next to the trunk/root flare. So now my tentative plan is to use landscaping fabric right over top of...

I've got alot of trees and alot of lawn, it ain't happening by hand. I'm gonna have to research this more I suppose, I also don't want to damage any of my trees.

Cool, gonna try that out on some of my own trees. Once the snow melts that is.:D Now what would you say would be the best way for scraping that grass off, I'm thinking of just digging the grass/top layer off with the bucket of my mini-skid?

So you can safely remove the grass without damaging many of the tree's roots?

What are some opinions/options on the best way to convert a grass area into a mulch bed for a already established tree?

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Are you sure that's coming from your soul, or is it coming out your azz?:P :D:lol: