A tradition as old as time. The Annual Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Red Mulch Post From Your Boy Joey Making Gloucester better one less ugly red mulch landscape at a time.

The Blog is 19 years old. Here’s a tradition people remind me about every spring:

2025 edition brings a video:

Be a good friend and spread the word. This is our annual PSA dating back to 2012. This is the 2025 public service announcement.

2020-

Ahhh, a tradition as old as time.

My annual reminder that red mulch is tacky, classless and you need to rethink your whole life if you consciously pick artificially colored red mulch over deep black/dark brown mulch.

According my deep dive investigative reporting, and by deep dive investigative reporting I mean- “I snapped this photo.” Our yearly post deriding the decision of anyone who buys ugly red mulch seems to have made an impact because clearly people are jumping on the dark mulch train in droves this year.

Evidence: Exhibit A

A retrospective of “ Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Red Mulch” Posts From Past Years-