Re: Mulch Dilemma
Deborah,
Are you sure you didn't get in the line for composted sewage waste? This
can look an awful lot like decomposed wood chip mulch and does contain a
large amount of wood chips.
Nurseries use this compost all of the time on nursery crops. It goes for
$6 per cu. yd. in our area. This stuff is too hot to be used as mulch
and is more of a soil amendment that is usually tilled in.
How thick did you lay down this mulch?
We need a little more information to help you solve your problem.
Dan Nelson
Bridgeville DE
zone 7
SussexTreeInc@ce.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah Moll <molldl@SLU.EDU>
To: <propagation@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 10:50 AM
Subject: Mulch Dilemma
This past weekend we had a gardening day on our church grounds, which we
do each spring, amending soil, trimming bushes, weeding, and putting in
more perennials and the annuals. 24 hours later, all the annuals were
dying and the perennials were terribly damaged. It looked like the
tuberous begonias "melted" and the ferns were limp and brown. Even
barberry bushes were beginning to brown on the bottom branches. We
purchased our mulch from a reliable company that sells it to nurseries,
school districts, etc., and the contractor's dump trucks were lined up
for a block the day we purchased our 3 yards. It did not seem "hot".
I am wondering if there were some toxins in the wood. This is a first
for me in many years of gardening. Our 60+ man hours of labor did
nothing but kill our plants. Any ideas what could have happened?
deborah moll
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