Mulching & Wood Chipping Sunshine Coast

Two jobs sit under this one heading. The first is taking a pile of branches you have stacked from a DIY prune and reducing it to clean chip on the spot, chipper backed into the driveway, branches fed in trunk-first, and the whole pile gone in an hour or two instead of half a Saturday running tip loads.

The second is bulk mulch delivery. We tip cubic-metre loads onto driveways across the Sunshine Coast, fresh chip for paths and weed suppression, aged mulch that has been composting for months and is broken down enough to feed a garden bed, and dyed mulch in red or black for landscape edging where the look matters as much as the function.

Fresh mulch around a subtropical garden bed keeps the root zone cool through the long humid summer and slows water loss between storms. Lay it 75–100mm deep, keep it pulled back from the trunk collar to prevent collar rot, and it will hold for the best part of a year before it needs a topup.

Camphor laurel chip breaks down slower than most of the softer coastal species. It holds its shape longer as a path or driveway mulch. Handy if you don't want to be topping it up every few months. Paperbark and melaleuca chip is finer and composts quicker, better suited to garden beds than pathways. On the sandy soils around Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and the canal estates, mulch does more work than it might further inland. It's the main thing standing between your garden beds and moisture loss through a dry spell. We deliver bulk loads across the coast and up into the hinterland, Nambour and Palmwoods included. A steep driveway sometimes means tipping at the road and wheelbarrowing the last stretch. A standard one cubic metre load of fresh chip runs $70 to $110 delivered. Aged and dyed mulch sit a bit higher.