Overheard my neighbor say mulch is just colored wood chips and it kind of clicked

I was outside pulling weeds last Saturday and my neighbor across the street yelled over that she pays $40 a bag for that red dyed stuff at the garden center. She said it's literally just wood chips with food coloring and I never really thought about it before. Now I'm looking at my sad front beds and wondering if plain brown mulch from the landscape supply place would look just as good for half the price. Has anyone made the switch from fancy colored mulch to the cheap stuff and regretted it?

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maxpalmer17d ago

Plain brown holds up way better honestly, the dye just washes off eventually lol.

andrew_wood7216d ago

Gotta admit I used to be all about the fancy dyed grips and thought plain brown looked boring. But I grabbed a set of these cheap brown ones for a beater truck last year and they still look almost new. The colored ones I had on my old bike started looking patchy after like three months in the sun. Kinda changed my whole view on what "cool" actually means when it comes to parts that need to take a beating.