RE: [compost_tea] wood chips and compost

From: Timothy Clark <ground-up_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:44:15 -0700


Black walnut is the only hardwood that I am aware of that serves as a natur=
al inhibitor of plant growth: allelopathy. We use fir and hardwood for comp=
osting as well as making a super bedding for red wrigglers. We have limited=
 experiments composting and testing on plant growth with the black walnut.=
 
  http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/430/430-021/430-021.html Tim ClarkTo: compost_te=
a_at_yahoogroups.com
From: home_at_zim.co.zw
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:29:49 +0200
Subject: [compost_tea] wood chips and compost


















 



  


    
      
      
      



 My compost contains a lot
of rotten veg & fruit. In moderation I use both hardwood shavings & pine
wood-chips in my compost; I find the wood shavings suitably hold on to the=
 
valuable juices rather than it leaching out. I top-off the heaps after the=
 
first turn, with a coating/plastering of mud (red soil) and wood chips. I r=
ead
somewhere that there are particular microbes that live in clay soils that a=
re
capable of reducing ammonia losses. The wood-chips come out when
sieving and simply get reused.
Contrary to many publications I have
also used pine sawdust in my Vermiculture process; by pre-composting it and=
 
offering it up with regular feedstock in balanced proportions.

 
   Ian
Carruthers
 
 
 
 
 
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"> Compost should be made from just about
anything you can get for
nothing. Wood chips are great because they form a
mulch and don't break down
too quickly- thereby protecting your tree or
shrub's roots from the
greatest anti-microbial agent of all - the sun. So,
use it to spread over an
> application of compost and you'll get a lot of
benefit - especially if
you have lots of evaporation. Soon you'll have lots
of earthworms


    
     

    
    






                                                 

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