On Jun 14, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:

Ed Spaans wrote:
Hi All:
Anyone using cocoa shell mulch in making bonsai soil? It is a pretty
homogeneous material. The pieces are generally less than .5 inch in
diameter and maybe 1/32 in thick. The material is somewhat stiff but
nothing like bark, probably because it's so much thinner. On top of
that, it smells really nice.

And it turns into a greasy mush. Even as a mulch it seems to grow
mold and other fungus better than anything I know.

But maybe that's just down here in the hot and humid southeast.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature encourages
no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Even in Maine it turned to mush after one growing season. Use something
else.

Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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