Re: Pine bark fines
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  • Subject: Re: Pine bark fines
  • From: D* M* <l*@wi.rr.com>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:18:54 -0500
Title: Re: Pine bark fines
I’d vote for the latter scenario, Bill, as I’ve used wood chips and products from my own chipper as mulch for many years and never had any problems.  I do know that decomposing wood does tie up nitrogen (to be released late), but again, as I use the mulch on TOP of the soil bed, I’ve still not noticed any particular problems.


Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

l*@wi.rr.com

 


On 6/14/11 12:17 PM, "blee811@aol.com" <blee811@aol.com> wrote:


I live in the middle fo the woods and one year I shredded a lot of small branches that had collected around the place. When I used them for mulch, I discovered that they appeared to suck all the nitrogen out of the soil as they decomposed and I lost many plants. However, another factor may have been that some of the branches were from black walnut trees.
Bill Lee in Cincinnati
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