Re: eucalypts
Richard Starkeson wrote:
>
> I have read that the blue gum is valuable as a timber crop, if left to
> grow until maturity (100+ years?). That is why some of them were
> planted in California, but by speculators who did not realize how long
> one had to wait to get harvestable timber.
>
>> Does anyone else have any experience with composting euc leaves? I
> don't have any, so no experience, but perhaps the slowness to compost
> has to do with them not staying moist enough in the compost heap?
Well. of course mostvevergreen leaves are hard to compost, but one
thing Euc. leaves are apparently short on is phosphate and I have seen
the suggestion they will break down better if a SMALL amount of
superphosphate is added (a light sprinling between layers I should
imagine). I have never tried this myself however as I don't own a gum.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
