Re: Friendly worms or killer worms???

**"Nancy Szerlag" s*@earthlink.net**

Several years ago there was a movement to use recycled wool material as a 
mulch. The fabric was died brown and layered over the soil like landscape
cloth. I don't know if it's still available.

Nancy Szerlag

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>From: Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>
>To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [GWL] Friendly worms or killer worms???
>Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2003, 1:48 PM
>

> A friend with a certified organic farm maintains "sustainable" means no
> importation of anything a plant needs. Fertilizers and mulches produced on
> the premises, and seeds are saved.  She was using sheep's wool to see how
> that worked out as a mulch, but I don't think it was effective.  For those
> of you who look at the price of wool clothing and think she was being
> foolish, it's difficult for small sheep ranchers to sell wool.  Margaret L
>
>
>>I agree with Jacqui that sustainable gardening needs to be represented in
>>GWA.  Maybe someone can suggest that it be a workshop at the 2004 symposium,
>>for a start.
>>Doreen Howard
>>
>>
>
>
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