[NAFEX] Fresh woodchips are fine
William C. Garthright
billg at inebraska.com
Thu Mar 25 10:51:36 EDT 2010
> Fresh wood chips as landscape cover is fine. But as an additive to
> enrich garden soil or soil for tree planting I'd submit they should be
> well rotted.
Would you want to use wood chips as a soil additive anyway? I'm
certainly no expert, but I thought I've heard they'd deplete the
nitrogen in the soil as they continued to rot. (As a layer on top,
they'd do the same, but only at the surface.)
Just wondering. I've been using a lot of wood chips for mulch (landscape
cover, as you say), but nothing else. For that matter, I only put leaves
and other plant debris on top of the soil, too, not mixed into it.
Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
http://garthright.blogspot.com/
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