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sawdust as mulch

If I had access to a lot of clean sawdust and wood chips, I'd certainly 
mulch with it. If your plants suddenly take on a yellowing look, you would 
want to look at the nitrogen, but I don't believe the break-down of a 
sawdust mulch would be enough to rob a lot of nitrogen from the soil. If 
you're in doubt, and still want to utilize this, use it as walkways and 
paths as a weed barrier between your beds then before adding fresh, just 
scrape the (probably decomposed) wood mulch over onto your existing raised 
beds first.
I use a LOT of straw bedding and goat manure that hasn't broken down much 
before I dig it into the soil and mulch with it. I haven't seen a lot of 
problems with using it before it decomposes, except it makes good hiding 
places for ant colonies and snail slugs.
Oh, but on an up note:  I was in the yard practically all weekend, trying to 
make up for the weeks spent off-site. Even sitting straight on the ground, I 
was hardly attacked by ants at all!  In our area, for this time of year, 
this was nothing short of a miracle. Last winter, I applied ANT-idote, a 
nematode parasite that only attacks ants. I didn't think it had done much 
good, but we are not having nearly the ant problem around the buildings and 
yard as in other years past.

martha
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