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| I'm working on cleaning up my grandmother's yard. A few years ago she had some tree work done and she had the crew leave the wood chips in the front yard in a pile. It's all oak if that matters.
It's been a while and is pretty well decomposed by now. Wondering what it would be best used for? I'm working on her lawn right now, could I mix it into the soil for enhancement? She has some sandy areas where nothing much grows in. |
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| You could dig a hole and bury all the wood chips under your vege patch for them to act like nutrient buffer, or something like that. The link below contains a post by someone called emgardener that demonstrate good uses of wood chips: |
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| Based on my experience, do not incorporate wood into florida sand. Using it as a thick mulch on top of the ground is much better, although during the winter it will dry out extremely, but at least it won't dry out in the ground and make a poor situation worse. Unless it has totally decomposed to humus, which is very unlikely. Florida sand is very difficult stuff. It responds very poorly to typical temperate-climate style gardening. |
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| I went out and poked at it a little. Lots of worms. It's like half soil, half intact chips that crumble with very little pressure between index finger and thumb. Some are a little tougher. Thanks for the helpful information. I'm super new to this stuff, just in the past couple months started my first compost pile and propagated my first plants from cuttings (brugmansias). lol, I'm reading through that thread and someone mentioned the mexican petunias being trouble.. grandma has a section of her yard where they've gotten pretty wild.. guess that's gonna be fun :) but I like them anyways Well, in any case I'm going to experiment with it. |
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- Posted by toxcrusadr 5 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 19, 12 at 15:54
| It sounds like it is almost compost and could be used that way. But I haven't gardened in sand, so I will defer to pnbrown's advice on this one. |
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| yeah, the more I think about it and research it the less I want to use it on this lawn, I've got other places it will be useful though and I found a tree service willing to bring me a whole bunch of mulch for free :) |
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- Posted by EatMyGarden none (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 21:12
| Wood chips that decompose in soil sucks out the nitrogen in the dirt. Adding nitrogen in the form of diluted urine would help break it down further and replenish the area it composted it. |
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