**So here’s a funny story...when I (Gerrick) first started this business 18 years ago, once I started selling mulch, my wife quickly learned that all conversations about mulch began with how many YARDS of mulch. If someone placed an order for 10 yards of mulch...she literally thought that meant that I was selling enough mulch to provide for 10 residences (side note: before you think I might be in the doghouse, my wife, Dana, has given me permission to share this story!).

We have laughed over the yards of mulch story over the years...but in all actuality, how many of you know what a yard of mulch really is?Let’s discuss how to measure your flower beds to determine how many yards of mulch you need.

The first step is to determine the square footage of each flower bed individually. For example, if your flower bed is 10 feet long and 3 feet deep, you would calculate 10ft X 3ft to get a square footage total of 30.Obviously, the thicker you apply, the less square footage it will cover. At four inches thick, a yard would cover 75 ft.