Re: mulch

> > Am I the only person in the world who doesn't use commercial mulch?
Same here, Auralie, I'd rather use homemade compost, etc, I just don't have
enough to go around.  I too have haunted my neighborhood streets in fall
collecting leaves to make leaf mold, but I could never make enough.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] mulch


> You are lucky Auralie... wish I had the stuff to make my own mulch...
> not much here yet... heck, I am still going over to the older
> neighborhoods and stealing leaves in the fall to cover my plants...
> geesh....my neighbors are about to have me committed as it is.. :)
>
> Donna
>
> >
> > Am I the only person in the world who doesn't use commercial mulch?  I
> > won't
> > say I have never bought mulch - some years ago I invested in a few
> bags of
> > cocoa hulls for a bed that needed more help than I could provide, and
> I
> > use salt
> > hay in the vegetable garden when I can find it.  Other than that I use
> > compost, leaves, pine needles and well rotted wood chips the tree man
> > leaves us when
> > we have tree work done.  The chips have to rot for two or three years
> > before
> > they are good for mulch.  Lots of my neighbors use that awful red
> stuff -
> > sorry
> > if I'm offending anyone but I think it is hideous.  Maybe I'm
> backward.
> > Auralie
>
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