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Brush and bulky pick up in the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood is on July 21, 2025,
so be sure to place any prunings you want hauled away, on the street curb before then.
If you set your prunings out about three weeks before brush and bulky pick up, most leaves will dry up and fall off prunings before brush and bulky pick up, so those leaves and their fertility stay in the neighborhood as a beneficial water-conserving/soil-building mulch.
Pruned twigs and stems cut into 5-inch or shorter sections also make a great mulch.
Don’t use longer sections for mulch, because they act more like pack rat habitat and fire fuel than mulch.
Shorter pieces maximize soil-mulch contact and increase the rate of beneficial decomposition into humus.
Place the mulch in your basin bottoms where more water will collect, which will also increase the beneficial decomposition.
Prunings set along street curb should be no longer than 5-feet in length to ensure they will be picked up by brush & bulky.
Make your pruning piles neat, and keep them clear of public walkways so they do not block access.
• See our Events page for our hands-on pruning and tree care workshop (preceeding brush & bulky pick up), where you will learn how to prune in a way that enhances the health of trees, rather than make them worse.
• Be sure to prune to keep all public pathways in the public rights-of-ways clear to a minimum 5-foot width and 7-foot height of clearance required by the city to enhance access for all.
• This is also a great opportunity to remove dead wood / fire fuel from trees.
• For more on pruning & mulching see here
See here for more info on Brush and Bulky, and pick up schedule for other neighborhoods