What Are Wood Chips Used For?

It might be unknown that a lot of trees that get removed wind up in landfills. One way to upcycle parts of these trees is to find a way to use these wood chips on your property. Utilizing wood chips as mulch is one alternative, but what other ways can you utilize them?

Why Use Wood Chips in Your Yard?

Wood chips are a simple and budget friendly way to add organics to your property. They are readily available as a result of tree removals or pruning, and they help manage temperatures and water levels around foliage.

As the wood chips decompose, nutrients get added to the topsoil, additionally benefiting the foliage growing nearby.

7 Ways For Using Wood Chips In Your Yard And Garden

1. Use Wood Chips as Mulch

Mulch is one a favorable way to use wood chips since it provides so many benefits to your vegetation. Having your trees and shrubs mulched helps to manage topsoil temperature, hinders water from dissipating too fast, and adds nutrients to the topsoil as the chips decompose.

Below is how to correctly place the mulch:

• Spread out the mulch in a layer no thicker than two to three inches
• Guarantee no wood chips are touching the tree
• Do not create mulch “pyramids” by piling it around your foliage

2. Cushion the Ground in Playground Areas

Wood chips can be utilized around play areas for cushioning the ground. Compared with other playground “ground” materials, chips are the most useful at hindering injuries.

They can also stop the soil from turning too compacted too fast and can lessen the amount of mud that is produced during and after storms.

It is suggested to spread wood chips in play areas of at least a depth of nine inches. The wood chips are going to compact when they are exposed to weather and playground playing so it’s best to begin with a thicker layer.

If you use wood chips in play areas, remove any sharp twigs for preventing injuries.

3. Add Them as Mulching to Your Garden, Vessel, or Large Pots

Like trees that benefit from wood mulch, as do other plants. The chips can also bring an appealing touch to your vessels and pots.

4. If You Have Rain Gutters, Place Wood Chips Close to the Downspout

This can stop rainwater from eroding the ground in that area.

5. Create a Wood Chip Walkway

You can place wood chips directly onto your ground and arrange them to form a walkway around your landscaping. This gives your yard a more landscaped appearance and establishes walking areas. When the wood chips are placed at a minimum of two inches thick, it should stop any weeds from growing.

Adding some edging or possibly rocks on the sides of the walkway to stop the chips from getting spread about due to wind, rain, or usage, is going to make it more established.

6. Separate Seating and Eating Areas by Spreading Wood Chips

In the same way an area rug can bring together an indoor area, an outdoor area spread with wood chips can work in a similar manner.

An enclosure of wood chips that includes an Adirondack chair and a side table, for example, can become a breakfast nook. An outdoor eating set on an area having wood chips creates a plainly established eating place.

7. Include Wood Chips on Your Compost Pile

Wood chips included in your compost pile are going to eventually decompose and add nutrients to the pile.

Landscaping Materials Scottsdale, Arizona

A & A Materials, Inc., located in Scottsdale, Arizona, offers, all purpose sand, aggregates, river rock, rip rap rock, mulch and wood chips for your landscaping or gardening needs. Contact us or call us at 480-990-0557 for more information.