I love the smell of my flower bed after it rains.  Ahhhh, it smells so chocolatey! 

Yep, that’s right, an aroma like brownies baking in an oven.  I use cocoa bean shells for mulch and it is true that when it gets wet, it smells delightfully like chocolate.

As the name indicates, cocoa shell mulch is made from the shell of the cocoa bean.  These shells come off the bean either during or just prior to the roasting process.  The shells are cleaned and packaged for sale as mulch.
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