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| Sorry I have three questions for the soil experts.
Will wood pellets help as a soil additive to clay? I know as they get wet and break up they go back to saw dust. I can get them cheap (couple bucks a bag)in the spring and was thinking of using them along with compost on my lawn. Are used coffee filters brown or green? I have piles of black walnuts this year, any benefit to compost them or just leave them piled up for the squirrels? |
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| Wood pellets are organic matter. They're almost pure carbon, so if you mix them in, you'll need to add nitrogen. If you spread them on top, they'll get nitrogen from the air. At the risk of incurring the wrath of somebody who has scolded me for pointing this out in the past, coffee filters are a brown. There is some sort of growth suppression in parts of black walnuts, but I'm pretty sure that if you compost them, this is negated. I'd compost them. |
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- Posted by toxcrusadr (My Page) on Mon, Oct 3, 11 at 10:48
| Of course the actual nutshell of a walnut is hard as rock, they'll take years to compost. The husks are probably fine. I used to collect walnuts, strip the husks and dry the nuts to get the meats out, and I composted the husks. Far as I remember they did fine. I think the roots exude more of the bad stuff than any other part of the tree. Of course coffee filters are brown, they're paper. I don't know why anyone would say otherwise. Granted a very small piece of paper so unless you have a lot of them it's not that important. Now the GROUNDS are slightly on the green side, so they go together just fine. |
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- Posted by earthworm73 WA z8b (My Page) on Mon, Oct 3, 11 at 11:11
| I have used wood pellets quite a bit as I have a shortage of browns even in fall because I don't have any big trees (not counting evergreens) in my neighborhood that I can collect. Father in law moved to a new home and this is his first fall there so the plan is to give me all the leaves he can rake up as his back yard sits against some deep woods. But I usually set the pellets in a shallow pan and add some water then wait till they have sucked up the water before I add the to my pile. Seems to work out just fine. |
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