Lot of soil in one corner of the backyard is about 6" thick from old juniper
"leaves". Passes water easily, not much can grow in it including grasses.
Is there any way to accelerate the degenerative process of juniper tree's
leaves while in place in the ground?

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Jonny

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Lot of soil in one corner of the backyard is about 6" thick from old juniper
"leaves". Passes water easily, not much can grow in it including grasses.
Is there any way to accelerate the degenerative process of juniper tree's
leaves while in place in the ground?

I think most gymnosperm mulch is acidic.
Try adding some limestone sand maybe?
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Try this link:

http://www.malcolmbeck.com/books/gv_...ingGrowing.htm

Note that cedar droppings "in the wild" still contain the cedar oil which
may have an inhibitory effect on growth.
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Austin, TX

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Lot of soil in one corner of the backyard is about 6" thick from old
juniper "leaves". Passes water easily, not much can grow in it including
grasses. Is there any way to accelerate the degenerative process of
juniper tree's leaves while in place in the ground?

--
Jonny

Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/zadvh

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Try this link:

http://www.malcolmbeck.com/books/gv_...ingGrowing.htm

Note that cedar droppings "in the wild" still contain the cedar oil which
may have an inhibitory effect on growth.
--
Mike Harris
Austin, TX

"Jonny" wrote in message
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Lot of soil in one corner of the backyard is about 6" thick from old
juniper "leaves". Passes water easily, not much can grow in it
including grasses. Is there any way to accelerate the degenerative
process of juniper tree's leaves while in place in the ground?

--
Jonny

Thanks. Works fine here.

Basically its saying the writer used a mineral/nutrient mix (one gallon of
colloidal phosphate clay for mineral and six quarts of bat guano for
nitrogen) dry cedar flakes. Then created another nutrient mixture (watered
with a nutrient solution of two tablespoons fish emulsion, one tablespoon
liquid seaweed, one tablespoon of feed-grade molasses, and one teaspoon of a
biological product called Agri-GroT mixed into three gallons of water).
And continued watering with same solution. Wet cedar is a no-no trying to
modify.

Lot of this also clarifies my stunted growth problem in the garden. Shallow
raised bed of soil. Guessing when the roots hit the native soil, lack of
nutrients and leachates from cedar tree runoff is the problem. Looks like
I'll start over with a deeper bed next year.

The link does give me ideas on how to modify dead cedar leaves for grass
growth without digging all of it up. Although won't be as drastic in
modfication and labor intensive as total excavation.
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Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/zadvh

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Try this link:

http://www.malcolmbeck.com/books/gv_...ingGrowing.htm

Note that cedar droppings "in the wild" still contain the cedar oil
which may have an inhibitory effect on growth.
--
Mike Harris
Austin, TX

"Jonny" wrote in message
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Lot of soil in one corner of the backyard is about 6" thick from old
juniper "leaves". Passes water easily, not much can grow in it
including grasses. Is there any way to accelerate the degenerative
process of juniper tree's leaves while in place in the ground?

--
Jonny