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Last Updated: 4/11/09
| Date | What was mulched | How many loads of mulch | Mulch source | Weather | How long it took |
| 4/13/08 | Big pond from overflow to azalea | 3 | Pickup load #1 | 50 degrees F | 2 hours | 4/17/08 | Colorado blue spruce, butterfly bush, maple, beech, wild plum, yellow butterfly bush, pawpaw, rose of Sharon, paw paw, and purple smoke tree. | 2 | Pickup load #1 | 60 degrees F; nice | 1.5 hours |
| 4/17/08 | Big pond from azalea to brick patio | 3 | Pickup load #1 | 60 degrees F; nice | 2 hours |
| 4/22/08 | Raspberry, apple tree, weigela, Washington hawthorne, pear, Bradford pear, crabapple, milkweed, willow and butterfly bush, pawpaw and white pine, gum tree, rhododendron, azalea, golden rain tree, and double Japanese yellow rose. | 2.5 | Pickup load #1 | 65 degrees F; nice | 1.5 hours |
| 4/22/08 | Big pond from brick patio to outlet | 2.5 | Pickup load #1 | 70 degrees F; nice | 2 hours |
| 4/27/08 | 5 new trees mom planted in the shade | 1 | Pickup load #1 | 60 degrees F; raining | 30 minutes |
| 4/29/08 | Big pond from outlet to north side | 1.5 | Pickup load #1 | 65 degrees F | 1.5 hours |
| 5/7/08 | Big pond from northeast side to northwest side | 2 | Pickup load #1 | 83 degrees F | 1.5 hours |
| 5/11/08 | New red buckeye tree | A bucket | Pickup load #1 | 75 degrees F | 10 min. |
| 5/14/08 | Cages out front - red bud, fig tree, crape myrtle, lilac, flowering almond, unknown crabapple?, crabapple, red currant, blueberry, red currant, yellow rain tree, horsechestnut, royal paulownia, scotch broom | 3 | Pickup load #1 | 73 degrees F | 2 hours |
| 5/18/08 | Three new plants - native azalea, spice bush, and service berry | 0.5 | Pickup load #1 | 70 degrees F | 20 minutes |
| 5/25/08 | Three new plants - replacement fringe tree (dead it seems), chokeberry, and little blueberry | 0.5 | Pickup load #1, getting yucky! | 75 degrees F | 20 minutes |
| 6/8/08 | Big pond, far northwest corner, patchwork | 3 | Pickup load #2, fresh off the truck | 85 to 90 degrees F | 2 hours (10:15 am to 12:15 pm) |
| 6/22/08 | Elderberry, butterfly bush, and variegated willow | 1 | Pickup load #2 | 84 degrees F | 30 minutes |
| 7/4/08 | "Weeping" cherry tree, wisteria vine, new chokeberry (just done recently), new other tree near two dead fringe trees (a redo too), big crabapple out back, little mulberry out back | 1 | Pickup load #2 | 82 degrees F | 1 hour (I was crampy) |
| 7/13/08 | Back rose garden | 2 | Pickup load #2 | 90 degrees F | 1.5 hours |
| 8/3/08 | Yellow rain tree, peach tree, azalea, hazelnut, and mum | 1 | Pickup load #2 | 81 degrees F | 45 minutes |
| 8/12/08 | 13 Cages out back - Variegated weigela, spice bush (just mulched when planted recently), inkberry holly, unknown squat shrub with thorns, Leyland cypress, variegated forsythia, butterfly bush, holly tree, Washington Hawthorne, mini rose, and 3 astilbes | 3 | Pickup load #2 | 80 degrees F | 2 hours |
| 8/17/08 | 6 Cages out back - 1 Leyland Cypress in the dog pen; 5 cages in the old garden - 1 unknown bush, 1 cage of 3 baby trees (1 rain tree, 1 crab apple, 1 dogwood), 1 cage of 4 baby redbuds, 1 cage of 5 trees (2 crab apple, 2 Bradford pears, 1 regular dogwood?), and 1 pink dogwood | 1 | Pickup load #2 | 87 degrees F | 1 hour |
| 8/24/08 | Front iris garden | 2.3 | Pickup load #2 | 85 degrees F | 1.5 hours |
| 9/1/08 | Side yucca and miniature rose garden | 2 | Pickup load #2 | 80 degrees F | 1.75 hours |
| 10/14/08 | 10 trees in the tree garden | 1 | Bag of mulch from Clark's | 70 degrees F | 1 hour |
| 12/28/08 | 8 cages in the animal graveyard - 3 creeping ground covers, 1 bluebells, 1 wood poppy, 1 hosta, 1 azalea, and 1 leriope | 1 | 1/2 bag of mulch from Clark's | 65 degrees F | 30 minutes |
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