On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:41:55 +0100, Christopher Norton wrote:

... piling a load of sawdust on your land will tie up nitrogen as it
decomposes. There`s better solutions than sawdust imho.

If you mix a nitrogenous fertilizer into the sawdust, you can put
sawdust on the garden without depleting soil nitrogen.

Unfortunately, I indavertently sold the one reference book which
gave the proper application rate, so I can't be more specific.
Perhaps you can find info on the web.


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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada