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Have you ever looked at your freshly painted fence only to see tiny brown marks on it? Or looked at your walls or car to see the same? Those tiny brown marks are incredibly hard to remove as you may already know. Yet they are easily preventable. Most Americans who own their own home are house proud. It’s part of who we are. So when something as small but as annoying as these sticky brown spots begin appearing on our property it’s only natural that we want to do something about it. Those brown spots could be artillery fungus. It’s...

In our last blog post, we touched on insect control without chemicals or the need for an exterminator and we thought we would expand on that a bit. A reader contacted us and asked for more detail on how rubber mulch can help control pests as they were suffering with millions of ants in their yard. So we here at Dallas Rubber Mulch are only too happy to help! One of the many concrete benefits of using rubber mulch on your garden instead of wood is that it doesn’t act as a friendly ecosystem for insects. This point alone is...

With spring well under way and summer just around the corner, now is a good time to get to grips with your yard or garden. Now is the time when weeds and undesirables get busy and begin undoing all your hard work from the previous year. Now is the best time to lay your rubber mulch. We have had something of a wet spring so far, which is ideal conditions for insects, mold and other pests to thrive. If you live in Texas or Oklahoma, you have had more rain than the rest of us and that’s a shame. We...

There has been a lot of talk about the environmental credibility of rubber mulch as a material and its safety as ground cover. This is especially true when it comes to using it anywhere where children play. So far, the science has failed to build a compelling case against rubber mulch and with good reason. All those theoretical fears about heavy metals, smells, color loss and swallowing have all been found to be largely unfounded. When you use a good quality rubber mulch, those issues just don’t arise. Playground safety The science around playground safety is behind the times, just...

Having worked in landscaping for a while, I can attest to the fact that wood mulch is a very popular product. It is used in all sorts of situations, for all sorts of reasons. It makes effective ground cover and protects the soil from frost and dehydration. But I can also attest that things move on. Products improve and industries need to move with them. While wood mulch may have been one of our favorite landscaping products, rubber mulch is now overtaking it. That’s why you’re seeing more and more play areas, municipal gardens, commercial properties and even our own...