Fresh wood chips as landscape cover is fine. But as an additive to
enrich garden soil or soil for tree planting I'd submit they should be
well rotted.
Would you want to use wood chips as a soil additive anyway? I'm
certainly no expert, but I thought I've heard they'd deplete the
nitrogen in the soil as they continued to rot. (As a layer on top,
they'd do the same, but only at the surface.)
Just wondering. I've been using a lot of wood chips for mulch (landscape
cover, as you say), but nothing else. For that matter, I only put leaves
and other plant debris on top of the soil, too, not mixed into it.
Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
http://garthright.blogspot.com/
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anarchists, liberationists of various stripes, revolutionaries, and of
course just plain criminals, like the ones that explode bombs among the
general population because they have some grievance with the world. And
yet, we had liberties for a while, which we gained while terror was
around. How did we deal with it? We used the law, and good old police
work. - John Wilkins
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