Is free mulch from a tree cutting company ok?
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Comments (50)Just a quick mention regarding a possible cheap supply prospect towards obtaining wood chip mulch here, for those interested. I get mine from a local "pallete" manufacturing company. Consider looking that word up in your regional Yellow Pages. This company recycles old palletes that trucking companys, warehouses, and such haul in. They get ground up into a decent average sized aggregate that seems to last for a good while without immediately breaking down or getting moldy. I like this aspect in that it lets in sufficient air to not stay to wet for to long. The old pallete material is in most cases well aged before making it to this stage of the process. This seems to help it last. I'm sure their are a good mix of wood varieties involved. So far no problems with any sorts of mysterious residually enhanced kill-off or die-back effects either! It' not free. But $10.00 gets your pickup loaded in several quick scoops worth of a large skid loader, and your down the road with it. So that alone makes it well worth the minimal expense. They run it over a magnetic belt to remove the majority of nail remains. I can be as generous as necessary with any coverage needs via this option. Not everyone will find a local source for this of course. I do actually consider myself lucky in regards to having this option. But where it may exist, it is both handy & cheap!!! ~ q3...See MoreTree cut down - take free replacement tree?
Comments (16)We had a blockage at one point and pulled out tree roots when cleaning. The maple was only feet from the sewer line and it is a old house, so it is not surprising. The new tree will be planted further away from the pipe. I think the other trees on my street are lindens, but I'm so bad at identifying trees. From the bark, it looks like lindens from the pictures I looked at online. Also, I don't jump over these trees, but don't frown either if that makes sense. It isn't an issue the city is offering a tree and I'm happy they ripped out the maple (it scared me with constantly falling large limbs). I'm just going to use the tree as the base for designing the front yard and don't want to find out I based my plan off a horrible tree. Hope that makes sense. I'm just a little confused as some sites classify the these trees as medium trees and others indicate large. Maybe they stay smaller when planted as street trees?...See MoreUsing chips from freshly cut trees to build lasagna bed?
Comments (19)Based on experience shared by Tom Robert on his blog: in praise of ramial wood chips. Building a Lasagna bed with ramial chips may not be a good idea: Quote++ Simply piled alone they store well, and in five years will look almost the same as they day they were piled. Summer chips (with green leaves) will heat up and rot down a bit, but there is so much more carbon in the chips than nitrogen in their leaves, that the brief period of initial heating soon subsides. Of course this depends somewhat on the type of woods being chipped, but getting more chips than you can use in a year or two is no real problem if you have a place to store them. Piles of chips are very porous, so they naturally tend to dry out quickly on their own unless covered with a tarp, straw or hay, etc. Since drying is preserving, simple piles of chips don't compost, they keep. End quote++ So using them along, they don't decompose much. Then if you add manure or more green matter, they compose very hot. Is that desirable in a lasagna bed? Quote++ All of the work done on building soils with ramial chipped wood recommends tilling the chips directly into the soil. I have done this sometimes, usually followed by a cover crop. When tilling in two inches of popple chips, I have found that there are temporary (one year) signs of nitrogen deficiency (poor crop growth, small plants with yellowing of leaves). By the second year these signs disappear. This may have been due to the large amount used, and the fact that some of the branches chipped were rather large. In future, I will be doing more direct tilling of chips into the soil using popple, alder and other mixed woods in separate sections, and chipping smaller diameter wood. The research quoted above has shown that ramial chips from climax trees (oak, maple, yellow birch, beech) produce the best quality soils, while ramial chips from conifers are the least beneficial. Mixed with cow manure, chips take more than a year to digest, so we no longer use them this way. However, over the past two years we have discovered that grass clippings have the necessary nitrogen to make chips "disappear" within a year when mixed at the rate of one grass to two chips and turned a few times. Such piles get VERY HOT very quickly. This past summer's pile is six feet high and thirty feet long and could be seen emiting warm vapor in the cool of morning and evening. End quote++ I am back to square one :) Here is a link that might be useful: This is from:...See MoreWhen is it ok to take cuttings from roses you don't own?
Comments (29)It's OK, Harborose, I did chuckle at your jest and I have been victimized by thieves. Let's not lose our sense of humor here, please. After all if we can't laugh surely we'll be crying. And I hate when that happens! My brother wants to get security cameras for the yard. For several years now, besides the roses being stolen, we've had our apple trees stripped clean of fruit either at night sometime or when we weren't at home for some reason. We use those apples for cooking all winter long and were very upset by the thought that someone climbed, and we think shook, the trees to get every last one down. The shaking is bad for the trees and my fear is some idiot will fall and then have the gall to sue us! We're pretty sure they went as deer bait no less because we've had several guys stop and ask if they could have them for that purpose. I really missed my applesauce, baked and apple pies the first year. Since then we've been trying to pick them earlier. They're not as sweet but at least we get some....See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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