Re: Wood chip mulch
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Wood chip mulch
- From: m* <m*@banet.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 19:27:53 -0500
- References: <34ba92f1.35240d7c@aol.com>
Meum71 wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-04-02 09:49:40 EST, you write:
>
> <<
> Two years ago, I was thinking of using a hot mulch in my cold frames beneath
> the
> plants as a way to winter over tender perennials. Every other nursery that
> I
> asked told me that the Carbon in the "hot" mulch would find it's nitrogen,
> going
> right through the plastic of the pots, and strip it from both the plants and
> their
> potting mix.
>
> So, I really wouldn't recommend it...
>
> However, I've never herad the same thing about grass. I think it's because
> it has
> a higher nitrogen content to begin with, and decomposes faster.
>
> Rika >>
>
> Thats a good story. but thats all it is.
> cardon bonds to it's self before it will bond to nitrogen.
> Cardon bonds to oxygen befor it will bond to nitrogen.
> Nitrogen is is very very common in air.
>
> when to put nitrogen together with carbon- nothing happens they do not react.
I built a cold frame about a decade ago that used fresh manure at the
base. I dug out a trench 150 ft by 6 ft and four feet deep and filled
about a foot of fresh manure in it. The plants overwintered beautifully.
Mark
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