For landscaping, this product often blows away even easier than wood mulch.
Quite often where wood mulches are used extensively, the plants acquire yellow leaves, and have stunted growth and less vigor - a classic result of nitrogen starvation.
Rubber does not rot or attract fungi, as wood mulches do.
The fungus is saprobic, and grows in sandy soils, lawns, gardens, and yards, especially those that are well-manured or use wood mulch.
It is widely distributed in southern and eastern United States (including Hawaii), having possibly been spread through the use of imported wood mulch in landscaping.
Applying wood mulches to planting beds can cause compaction.
Vegetation, shrubs and wood mulch should be kept at least one foot away from structures.
Surfaces should be soft; the orthopedics academy recommends rubber mats or loose fill like wood mulch or chips, shredded tires, sand or fine gravel.
Armed Fungus Q. Along my driveway is a shrub bed with wood mulch.
To these they add wood mulch and yard waste collected from across the island and then trucked to the farms.