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Any use for stump grinding shavings?

 
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I would like to use the stump grinding dirt/mulch mess from 5 Boxelder trees in the garden but got to wondering if this is a bad idea and thought I'd ask?
I would like to use it to mulch the paths and edges, for one, but also is there any reason to or not to add a little to the soil itself? Every winter we put some rabbit manure/hay/leaves down which I've read is good but this being our second gardening year... I don't really know. Thoughts on the grindings? It is probably a dumb question :)
 
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Moriah Taylor wrote:I would like to use the stump grinding dirt/mulch mess from 5 Boxelder trees in the garden but got to wondering if this is a bad idea and thought I'd ask?
I would like to use it to mulch the paths and edges, for one, but also is there any reason to or not to add a little to the soil itself? Every winter we put some rabbit manure/hay/leaves down which I've read is good but this being our second gardening year... I don't really know. Thoughts on the grindings? It is probably a dumb question :)



I don't think it's a dumb question.  I would use them the same as wood chips.  Paths, added to compost, piled on the garden.  I wouldn't till them in, but I would pile them anywhere I needed organic matter or wanted to keep weeds down.
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