Posted by Geo-TH,In on May 22, 2015 at 03:49:41 from (104.240.204.75):
In Reply to: Wood Chips posted by spudm on May 21, 2015 at 18:27:22:
Some say walnut chips are not good. I get free chips from tree trimmers who are glad to get rid of them. Last year I got about 30 truck loads in the summer. There was leafs in the chips too. You need to let that stuff sit, it smells with the leafs decaying. I put some pine chips and pine needles around my wild raspberry to cover up the poison ivy. Well I got rid of most of the ivy and the raspberries are loving it. I used a few loads to cover up ragweed in the gravel pit. Wood chips in flower beds take about 5-6 years before they break down into what looks like dirt. Flowers love it. It traps the moisture and seems to add nutrients.
I have a friend who has horses. Each year I get 8 dump trailer loads of horse poo, sawdust, hay and lime. I also get about 7000 lb of Ag lime and mix in. Let the horse poo sit for a year, mix in a few chips and you have good organic mulch.
The boss wants to plant flowers in her old gravel pit, which is down to sand and gravel, no top soil. By using horse poo mixed with Ag lime, covered with wood chips, the flowers are loving it.
The last few years, I dig holes with PHD instead of using tiller. Then I fill the holes with last year's mulch. The garden is loving it too. I also mix in grass clippings and leafs in mulch pile. All the free organic stuff is making dirt.
I think it would be best to allow all the organic stuff to sit in a pile for a year or two for the microbes to break it down. I waited for the winter to move some of my chips, less moldy smell.
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