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Wood chips are a versatile natural ground cover made from chipped tree wood, bark, branches, and other woody material. Their coarse, irregular texture creates a rustic appearance that blends naturally with gardens, wooded areas, parks, pathways, playground borders, and residential or commercial landscapes.
The larger chip size provides more cushioning underfoot than finely shredded mulch, making wood chips a practical surface material for walking trails, informal pathways, recreation zones, and selected play areas. Material intended for playground use should meet the appropriate safety and impact-attenuation requirements for that installation.
Open spaces between the chips allow rainwater to move through the layer and into the soil below. This helps reduce surface runoff, improve water infiltration, and limit muddy conditions along paths, around trees, and across lightly traveled landscape areas.
Wood chips also help conserve soil moisture by reducing direct exposure to sunlight and wind. A properly applied layer can keep the soil more evenly moist between watering while helping insulate plant roots from rapid temperature changes.
Their coarse coverage helps suppress weed growth by limiting sunlight at the soil surface. Wood chips can be spread around established trees, shrubs, garden beds, fences, and broad landscape areas to create a cleaner surface and reduce routine maintenance.
On slopes and disturbed ground, wood chips help protect exposed soil from rain impact and surface erosion. Their irregular shape allows the pieces to overlap and settle together, creating a protective organic layer that slows runoff and helps stabilize the upper soil surface.
As wood chips gradually decompose, they contribute organic matter to the soil. Over time, this can improve soil structure, biological activity, and moisture retention, making them an environmentally friendly option for long-term landscape management.
Affordable, natural, and easy to install over large areas, wood chips are widely used by homeowners, landscapers, municipalities, schools, parks, farms, and commercial property managers seeking durable ground coverage with a low-maintenance woodland appearance.
Common Applications of Wood Chips
- Playground and recreational areas when approved for use
- Garden pathways and walking trails
- Landscape beds and tree rings
- Erosion control on slopes
- Woodland gardens and naturalized areas
- Weed suppression around established plants
- Moisture retention around trees and shrubs
- Parks, campuses, and municipal landscapes
- Informal trails and outdoor activity areas
- Large residential and commercial ground-cover projects
