Wood chips

Our yard is ringed by planter beds which will be filled with wood chips and later plants such as fruit trees and ornamental grass. Since last fall when the grass was installed we have had the beds sitting empty with bare dirt. I started putting wood chips in, but it's an ongoing project due to the bags being heavy and awkward. I don't like to handle more than a few bags at a time (too tedious and unwieldy) so I just grab 5 every time I'm at Home Depot, which is often.

The dogs are having a field day eating the chips and scattering them throughout the yard. The grass actually looks a lot better than it does in this picture - we had shut off some of the sprinklers to set up a seating area outside, so some of the grass got a little brown. It's better now though.