Playing hopscotch?

Darn, tree oracle! You beat me to it, lol!

Dee

Awesome!! They even have lots of leaves aka nitrogen in them! Pixie, I think you live near me, where did you get the chippings if you don't mind saying?

One of the landscaping/tree companies was on my street chipping branches from Irene. I just walked down the street and asked them if they would mind dropping the chips in my driveway. He didn't have much in the truck, but asked me how many I wanted. I asked for 10 yards. He came back an hour later and dumped them. The driver was pretty thrilled - they are so busy post-Irene that I saved him a 10 mile trip to go dump his wood chips.

On a regular basis, when I need more wood chips, I'll approach a tree service working in our neighborhood. I always look to see what type of tree they are taking down - I don't want anything that is all pine or if it has tree of heaven in it.

FWIW - when I've tried to call these landscaping companies and ask for their wood chips, they want to charge me $10-15 per yard. But if I can find their guys working locally, the foreman will always dump them for free.