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  • From: Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wood chips
  • Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:05:11 -0600

Sermon follows :)

30+ years back the Power and Light trimming crew dumped many truckloads of chips from roadside trees in a huge pile for us. We found they made decent weed stops if you didn't dig them. After a year of planting and the winter of cold they were pretty much gone the following spring. We tilled them in and there didn't seem to be any effect, positive or negative.

We did not use any more for a long time and the fall red raspberries invaded the pile. Best berries we EVER grew! A friend came to get some transplants and we just pulled them from the decomposing pile with ease.

Eventually the pile was only a foot thick and the richest stuff you wanted to see. White threads everywhere, and very long. Now, THIS stuff is great for your garden or any soil you want to rejuvenate as it has the mycorrhiza ready to go.

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Mycorrhiza
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You can use this with manure and lots of hay/grasses/weeds to make awesome compost to bring your soil wildlife back to prominence and enhance the uptake of minerals, vitamins and hormones to your plants, and to your own body.

Sermon mode off :)

If you have tree removal guys, line clearance folks or other sources of very old and rotten piles of wood chips, treat them like gold and get all the decomposed woody material you can, just for the mycelium in them.

Newman Turner and Eliot Coleman approved 'stuff'.

Mike







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