When Spring cleaning comes around, people are trimming hedges, trimming monkey grass, pruning crepe myrtles, and refreshing mulch, and we get the same question every year. People get tired of refreshing the mulch and having it wash away and blow out into the yard. So they ask, “should I switch to rock?”

Our response is always the same, whatever you want, we will get you. But if you want our input, we would almost always prefer to bring in mulch than rock, and it’s not because we make more money, quite the opposite actually. In the long run mulch usually makes everyone’s life easier. It has be refreshed once or twice a year because it decomposes and loses color, and rock doesn’t. Rock is more permanent which is what seems to be the selling point in the short run. But that means you’re locked in, and should you ever change your mind it’s going to cost you much more time and effort to remove it yourself and much more money to have someone do it for you. Not to mention it is much more expensive than mulch to have applied as well.

If you’re using the typical one inch river rock like most do, then it can still wash into the yard with heavy rain, and get blown out by leaf blowers. But the rock isn’t going to decompose and the mulch will.

If you know you never want to touch mulch again then rock is your best option, certainly better than rubber mulch. But it will cost you more upfront, and down the road should you ever need a change. And it is absolutely going to be more time and elbow grease than you want to expend on your Saturday afternoon, so rock or mulch, call Cutting Edge to bring it in for you!