To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mulch (was gypsum)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:19:06 -0700 (PDT)
Lucky, that is bizarre, they must have gotten gypsum mined near a uranium
deposit. I am
dropping the sheetrock idea because I dont need it fauling up certification
in the
future. Thanks for all the useful commentary folks. However, half the reason
I
considered it was as a sod smothering mulch. Since I won't use easy solutions
like
roundup to kill back grass around young trees, and I have too many to weed
whip up to the
trunk every couple weeks, mulch has been a real study - that I am not
satisfied with yet.
If I use mats (ie, cardboard, carpet, perforated mats, etc. ) then rotted
manure I apply
is seperated from the root circle. If I use staw it soon builds up to a mound
that will
build too deep around the trunk. What do other non-roundupers do?
Thanks, Del, n MN Z 2/3
--- Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:
> Del,
> Don't know if it's a concern in your area, but I had a buddy who was in
> grad school at USF at Tampa FL, and he told me about a big wallboard
> manufacturer there who had huge stacks of wallboard just sitting out on the
> back side of the property, because of some glitch in materials procurement
> which resulted in the manufactured product containing/emitting excessive
> radioactivity, making the product unsalable. Don't know how long the stuff
> sat there - heck, it may still be there 25+ years later.
>
> Lucky