I am fortunate to have a landfill that will chip my trimmings and reload it in my truck gratis. I use these chips for walkways in the garden and to mulch fruit trees. I am concerned about bringing home disease or bugs from someone elses' garden, but, knock on wood, hasn't happened yet. It takes a few years for this to break down further even tho it is in the wet zone of our kitchen garden, worms seem to prefer it under the walkways of chipped wood to the straw mulch of the planting beds. The soil under the walkways is richer than the beds after three years, but we are not mining the nutrients of this zone with plants. Perhaps I should rotate the beds and walkways.
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