To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Growing Mulch
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
I have a similar problem. Our high mountain valley land is 20 miles from a tiny town, and we have not a single tree on 70 acres. The only thing available to me is straw, when I can find it. I'd love to hear what others have done. Thanks in advance! Tina in Colorado
From: Evan <kodama@riseup.net> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 8:53:04 AM Subject: [NAFEX] Growing Mulch
This may be a silly question, but as I've begun planting and planning my modest orchard, I've run into a lack of available mulching materials (or more likely, I'm just blind to what's staring me in the face). The orchard's in a rural area and there aren't the abundant flows of woodchips and leaf-litter found in the urban areas. But, in consideration of a future with much less energy to spend on woodchippers, I've been wondering what I could use for mulch.
Right now I'm thinking I'll plant a coppice-or-pollard field downslope where I can take the shoots and lay as mulch around some of my fruit and nut trees upslope.