Why Is Mulch Such a Big Deal?

Adding mulch to your garden is an essential step to help protect your soil from drying out and to suppress weed growth. Organic mulches help provide your soil with rich nutrients and fight climate change by trapping carbon in the soil.

The most important time of year to mulch is during the spring, though you’ll also want to reapply mulch in the late fall. Besides getting your mulch on the ground at the right time, you also want to use the best type of mulch based on your gardening goals and make sure you’re not applying too much—or not enough.

How to Use the Lowe's Mulch Calculator

That's where the Lowe's Mulch Me Now Calculator comes in. The tool uses AI to calculate the amount of mulch needed for a job based on customers’ responses to a series of questions.

To get started, customers can message “MULCH ME NOW!” to Mylow, Lowe’s AI assistant. In less than two minutes, Mylow will calculate how many mulch bags are needed based on your responses, and you can then move directly to checkout and schedule a delivery through the Lowe’s app.

As a bonus, same-day mulch delivery is available for free on eligible orders of $25 or more for both MyLowe’s Rewards and MyLowe’s Pro Rewards members, and both programs are free to join. 

Score Free Mulch This Spring

To help celebrate the launch of the mulch calculator and the start of the mulching season, Lowe’s is also rolling out a new “Mulch Mobile” truck, which will be surprising gardeners in select markets with deliveries of free mulch. Keep an eye out!