Re: CULT: Lined beds and Wool mulch

Thank you Christy. I like especially the idea using it to prevent fine soil
sifting from the bottom of the pots. I restrict my growing now to arils,
arilpums (trying to) and pumilas. These are mostly in pots in an/or outside
of the green house. Of course fine soil loss is common under these
conditions. It is worth a try for one or two pots to see what they do.

Francesca

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From: "Hensler" <hensler@povn.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] CULT: Lined beds and Wool mulch


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francesca Thoolen" <f.thoolen@comcast.net>
>
>
> Christy, I am not familiar with the expression 'wool mulch'. Is this real
> wool or is it a plastic product called 'wool mulch'? This is quite an
> improvement for your babies. Would any other soil improvement product have
> done the same? Curious to know if the other products would contain
something
> in them that these plants would not have responded to. Sounds very
> interesting.
>
> Francesca,
>
> This is real wool, right off of the sheep. :-)
>
> Wool is protein. Alfalfa would probably be comparable but alfalfa can also
> heat up quite a bit as it breaks down.  Wool doesn't seem to hold onto the
> moisture itself and it actually moderates the soil temerature. I'm
planning
> to test the wool mulch around a few TBs to see if it's as well behaved as
I
> think it is.
>
> I was concerned that it might blow around a bit but that hasn't been the
> case. Once wet down and exposed to the weather, it forms a loosely felted
> blanket and stays put. I've also used pieces of the dirtier wool for years
> in the bottoms of gallon pots at the nursery to keep the potting soil from
> escaping out of the holes.
>
> It looks like there's a company (or two) that's been testing wool felt as
a
> commercially produced product. I did a quick search using Google and found
a
> few links that are interesting. The last one actually has wool products up
> and running but the prices are high.
>
> http://www.auri.org/news/ainjul00/03wool.htm
> http://www.uvm.edu/extension/impact/winter2001/
> http://www.appleseedwool.com/
>
> The wool market has been horribly depressed for the last few years. It
costs
> more to shear a sheep than the wool will sell for commercially. That's the
> clean, white wool, BTW. Any black, gray or brown hairs in a fleece and
> there's no market at all. Even lower on the scale is "tags". Those are the
> manure stained, dirty edges of a fleece that are taken off the fleece
before
> it heads to market. (Think fertilizer.)
>
> If you have anyone raising sheep in your area and you'd like to try using
> wool, it would be worth the time to talk to them. Chances are that most
will
> throw out the tags and bagged wool can be purchased directly from the
grower
> for very little.
>
> Christy
>
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