Sawdust and nitrogen
- Subject: Sawdust and nitrogen
- From: T* K* E*
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:51:51 -0400
I understand that the sawdust-nitrogen problem is only significant if you
dig the sawdust into the soil. If it sits on top, it can only remove
nitrogen at the soil interface, = not much. Sure does kill the grass,
though! I'm a chainsaw sculptor on the side, so I have large patches of
dead lawn surrounding various carving places. Takes about a year for the
grass to come back through one statue's worth of sawdust.
I've been spreading my own sawdust around as mulch and don't see any effect
on the desirable plants except for perhaps the franklinia, which is not
doing at all well this year. Second spring for the tree, so it could also
be the dry winter.
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