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Alexander Miller @dot.dot.dot wrote:

Kay Lancaster wrote, in part:

|I live in an area with poor, rocky, heavy clay soils, and a warmish, wet
|winter and dry summers. I get the local tree-trimming crews for the
|power company to drop off a load of chips when I spot them around, and I
|spread them out on the soil into a layer about 8" deep and have just
|let them rot as they are.

Interesting. Thanks for the info. We have similar conditions. Those chips
you're
getting would be more like chunks than shavings, I guess. I haven't seen the
output from those mobile chippers. Are the pieces about one inch max size?

Alexander

I get piles delivered and cover our walking paths with it. The energy
of being walked on speeds up the rotting process. Be sure to keep it
away from wooden structures because of termites.
Keep an eye out for poison ivy cuttings unless you have great tree
working folks doing that for you. I let the piles sit a year or two
first.
We call it wood chips but the size is not uniform. I think that any
thing once alive or passed through a digestive tract is a good amendment.

Bill

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