"Marshal Anderson" wrote in
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Had my garden done over with areas of wood chip a while ago
(www.marshal.co.uk/garden.htm if you're really board!). In some areas
the wood has now rotted down to the point where things are begining to

SNIP

I would rake up the old chips and compost them, hoe the weeds, and lay some
new chips, or mulch or whatever. There is a good range of stuff available
nowadays in a range of colours if that's what you want.

But any organic product is going to biodegrade eventually.

Steve