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Compost/ Sort of...

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> >This is sort of a compost question: Last year on my 
> > veggie beds I used cocoa hull mulch. As it got towards the fall I 
> > added another layer of Pine Bark mulch. Also over the winter a lot 
> > of leaves made their way to my beds and settled their as well. As I 
> > was poking around in the beds today I noticed quite a bit of the 
> > cocoa hulls and leaves had started to decompose and the soil is 
> > really black. 
> >  So should I remove the cocoa 
> > hulls and leaves to my compost pile or leave them on the bed and 
> > turn over into the soil come sowing time. 
> > 
> > I use these particular beds for lettuce, chard, and other leafy 
> > greens.

   It sounds like cocoa hulls might be a good inexpensive mulch.  
Where can I get some for how much?  Normally I just use grass 
clippings.  About 15 bushels a week of them what doesn't go in the 
compost heap.  BTW Last year I had about 150cu ft of them. 
Not counting what had settled down or what had gone in the garden.


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