Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

If you’ve got a lot of garden beds to mulch this spring, you may be in danger of throwing your back out toting all those heavy bags of cedar chips around.  Here’s an alternative:

The Original Mulch Block.

Made from compressed coconut husk and fiber (AKA coir), the block is lightweight and fairly compact when you buy it (about the size of a large phone book), but when you bring it home, dump it into your wheelbarrow, and hydrate it with your hose, the mulch expands nicely.  It turns into two cubic feet (about 12 square feet) of coverage.

Eco-friendly and organic gardeners will appreciate this “100% Organic, Biodegradable, Renewable Resource.”  Once hydrated, the mulch is a rich auburn color that will look good in your beds as well as providing the usual mulchy benefits to your soil.

Feel free to order the product before you’re ready to mulch, because the company promises the stuff won’t mildew in storage.

It costs $7.99 to $9.99 and is available at numerous nurseries and hardware stores (check their site for specific locations).  The company also has potting soil and “seed raising” blocks that are also based on the rich coconut husks and fibers.

http://www.originalmulchblock.com