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  • From: Windsoap AT aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Large Scale Mulching
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:10:50 EDT

In a message dated 9/22/2003 2:37:22 PM Central Daylight Time, shepogden AT yahoo.com writes:


round bales of hay

Hello, Shep, nice to know you're on here!!

I also used a couple of round bales to mulch a garden way back when.  The person who unrolled it for me misunderstood and plowed it in!  I fought Dallas grass (good hay) for several years and finally moved the garden for a year and installed two pigs for the summer to dig up all those nasty stolen type roots.  Make sure that doesn't happen if you mulch with hay! 

If we mulch, we use half-rotted wood chips that over the season decompose into compost.  In most areas, there are crews trimming the trees away from the power lines.  Approach a crew and offer them a free dumping site.  They will come if the site is accessible.  We have about 1/2 acre, piled from 5 to 10 feet high, of wood chips in progressive degrees of decomposition.  Over the past 7 years, this "mountain" has turned our soil from light sand into rich loam.
Wendy Akin
Akin Farm
Texas



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