Re: Wood chip mulch
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Wood chip mulch
- From: "* L* <h*@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:38:45 -0500
Paul, I think the deal is that the bacteria that break down wood and other
high carbon material need nitrogen. They don't make it go away, just tie it
up while they are living and composting, and return it to the soil when they
run out of food and die. There isn't much nitrogen in wood chips, so the
bacteria get it where they can. But the bacteria don't go on safari into
pots either.
-----Original Message-----
From: Meum71 <Meum71@aol.com>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, April 02, 1998 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Wood chip mulch
>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...
> 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.
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