Re: bark or not.
I agree with Dave. If these are the THICK bark chips, they may take several years to break down, and will be tying up nitrogen in the mean time. I'd get them out.
Bryan Saylor
Herndon, VA
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> From: Dave <belcherdv@earthlink.net>
> Date: 2003/01/12 Sun PM 09:35:41 EST
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Subject: Re: bark or not.
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> I read that bark mulch robs the ground of nitrogen. I would remove it. The
> same holds true for wood chips.
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> Dave
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> tracy.fisher@attbi.com wrote:
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> > I was wondering, this is my first year attempting to grow a bigg'n. I have an
> > old play ground in my back yard that has had bark in it for 10+ years. Its
> > about 30 by 24. Question was do you think I should remove all of the wood
> > chips in the area or till them under and add compost and good soil? Any advice
> > on this would be appreciated...
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> > Second is I've been reading about seed genetics. Does pollinating a higher
> > genetic seed with a lower genetic producing seed take away from the Higher
> > seeds genetics?
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