Re: Composting question, sort of
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- Subject: Re: Composting question, sort of
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:03:42 -0500
Bill,
Paul was right on...what you've found is the mycelium of a fungus who likes
to dine on woodchips - have no earthly which one. I find this in my
woodchip piles all the time and, in fact, in leaf piles...so it also likes
carbon of other flavors. Does not harm anything but is a pain to fish out
and shake off. I just fish them out, shake them off and heave them into
the woods to let them get on with their job somewhere else.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Blee811@aol.com
> Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 10:52 AM
> One box had significant decomposition and I used the chips at the bottom
of a
> new bed I was double-digging (Oh, my achin' back). I went to do the same
> with the other two boxes and there was no decomposition. Instead, the
boxes
> were full of very stiff, black, wirelike roots that held all the chips
> together. The first box did not have significant contact with the ground
for
> the past year, but the other two did. Something grew in that box, but it
> didn't seem to be from the ground because the boxes did not seem to be
> attached to the ground.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? What is it? Were some of the chips actually
> trying to grow?
>
> Bill Lee
> Z6a Cincinnati
>
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