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Re: [Livingontheland] intensive, no-till organic from a different angle

From: "jerry walker" <cubby149@vermontel.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] intensive, no-till organic from a different angle
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:04:05 -0500

I was wondering how about old 100% wool clothing. would it work the same way?

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From: Norma Sutton

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:39 AM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] intensive,no-till organic from a different angle

Hi Tony,

No it takes wool a while to decompose. This lady chops it up into about 1 inch pieces. She said the next year it had decomposed some, but the soil underneath it was teeming with earthworms.

I'm going to try it this year with my angora buck fleece that I can't get that billy goat stink out of. LOL

Norma

On 2/18/07, Tony Marzolino <tmarzolino@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello Norma,

Wool sounds like a very interesting idea. Does the wool decompose within a year?

Thanks

Tony Marzolino

Norma Sutton <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com> wrote:

Paul,

I know I'm late coming into this, but I know of several sheep growers that are using a thin layer of waste wool underneath the mulch. I haven't tried it as my sheep are bred for wool production, not meat, but one lady that I know says that with as little as 1 inch of wool underneath the regular mulch, your need to water drops to almost nil . . . Her example was that she took a month's vacation at the hottest part of the year and came back to a beautiful and productive garden.

Norma

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