MULCH MUNCHKINS 
Plant MULCHING @ the JAYCEE ARBORETUM
Join the JAYCEES and volunteers for a community distribution of mulch along the extensive planting beds, monument plazas and decorative tree wells on May 14th, 17th, 21st, 28th & 31st, 2008 at their award-winning JAYCEE Corridor & Arboretum.
This open space project will begin around 10:30Am and run to approximately 1:30Pm. Please feel free to bring along a shovel and/or small wheelbarrow, if you're able.
Refreshments will be served
Ongoing landscape projects and horticultural activities are always welcome!
Contact Information
Directions: ------> Riverpoint COMMUNITY Park
Intersection of Providence & Hay Streets (Rts. 115w / 33)
( Royal Mills Square W. Warwick )
This opportunity is sponsored by JAYCEES of Kent County
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But He cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
Here are some of the benefit sprovided by mulching:
1.) Retains soil moisture 2.) More visually appealing 3.) Encourages & rewards soil microbes and invertebrates
4.) Reduces weed & turf growth 5.) Prevents mower & string trimmer blight 6.) prevents soil temperature extremes
7.) Increases soil fertility 8.) Improves soil structure
Life in the Arboretum. Mulch all the way to the drip line if you really want to minimize the influence of turf (allelopathic & competition for nutrients/water/space). Depth around 3 inches
When mulch kills! Be CAREFUL!!!
AVOID volcano mulch... applying over 3 inches ... contact with the trunk ... 'sour' mulch
The Award-Winning
