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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   If your wood chips are to lay directly on the ground, you'll want to add 
some nitrogen because the soil bacteria will grab all it can to break down 
the wood.  With nitrogen bound up in bacteria, there will be less for 
plants.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)