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[Christopher Kennel <ckennel@gmail.com>]

I have similar wood chips around apricot, peach, plum, cherry, and pluot
trees, and they've done well.  Out here in the arid west, the chips help
keep the soil nicely moist, and it is easy to remove errant grass plants and
weeds that invade the spaces under my trees.  I've been using them for 5
years so far.  The bottom layer of chips slowly degrades into nice black
dirt that earthworms like.  I think they also keep the soil a bit cooler
which may help delay blooming--a nice thing since we get a lot of late
frosts.

Chris Kennel
Denver, CO


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>wrote:

> Jerry,
> If you do a Google search on "Ramial wood chips" you will find a lot of
> information on this. In general, if the chips are mostly from hard wood of
> a diameter no more than 2 inches, they will be good to put around your
> fruit trees. Chips from resinous wood is considered as not so good, but I
> am not too sure of the reason. Some of the early research on this is from a
> team in Laval University in Quebec about 20 years ago. I know my friend
> Celine Caron also wrote things about this for MOFGA a while back.
> You may look at this article for a start:
>
> http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Pubs/Wood%20Chips%20in%20Vegetable%20Produc
> tion.pdf<http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Pubs/Wood%20Chips%20in%20Vegetable%20Produc%0Ation.pdf>
> Claude
>
> A 16:34 11.03.24 -0400, vous avez écrit :
> >As a result of the power company doing some trimming around our power
> lines, I got a load of really nice clean wood chips.  I will use them on
> our path, but will have lots left over.  Is there any problem using them as
> mulch around my fruit trees?  Jerry in southern Indiana
> >
> >
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