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Originally Posted by tomwed
What to do--What to do If I could hire someone and have the chips put down it might be the way to go. I know the landscaper is probably buying the chips or pine straw for less money.I don't really have much of an area to cover, maybe 400 sq feet. And do you think wood chips look better than pine straw? maybe fancier.
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Mrs Fox and I recently "pine strawed" an area of around 150 sq ft in a couple of hours. It took that long because we first put down water-soaked newspaper (four layers thick) to keep out the light to help prevent weeds.
Eventually both the newspaper and the pine straw will rot down as nutrients for the plants, and hopefully the plants will have grown to cover the whole area so that we won't need to repeat the operation.
We used four bales of pine straw, bought from Lowes, but you can buy it cheaper elsewhere in bulk if you have the means to transport it.