Re: Nemacur
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- Subject: Re: Nemacur
- From: l*@juno.com (Lynn W Woosley)
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:22:14 -0700 (MST)
bills@tiger.hsc.edu (Bill Shear) writes:
>Every year I ask our town to bring me a load of the leaves they have
>vacuumed up on the streets. Within ten months, this stuff has lost
>two-thirds of its volume and has broken down into chunky leafmould (I
like
>the English spelling here; "leafmold" sounds suspiciously like something
>spoiled!), ideal for mulching and for mixing into the soil. Most of my
>perennial beds get about two inches of it every spring (if you put it
down
>in the fall, you're invinting voles to take up residence). It does
wonders
>and contains no seeds as is sometimes the case with compost.
Surprisingly,
>by the time it is black and unrecognizable it is neutral in pH despite
>having begun as mostly oak leaves and pine needles.
>Many communities dump their leaves in a common repository where they
>compost, and you might be allowed to go there and fill up the pickup.
Here
>in Farmville, you can get a load of leafmould from any municipal
employee
>with a truck, who will be glad to do the shovel work for a very low fee!
>But I suspect some towns would do it for you with a front-end loader
>without charge, just to get rid of the stuff.
In Cobb County, GA, where I live, the county shreds and chips the
Christmas trees, limbs, etc. that are brought to the dump. The
resulting mulch/compost fodder is available to anyone who comes in with a
truck and a shovel.
Lynn Woosley
Marietta, GA, USA
USDA Zone 7/8
