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john giroux wrote:Any one have any idea if wood chips can carry pesticides/herbicide residue and if so, how long would it last. I'm talking normal lawn care type stuff. I have read about getting sick tree chips. I feel that the good the chips do in mulching and fungus etc. Would out weigh the bad effect of chemical residue. But I have heard the other side of the argument. Anyone test the chips?
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M.K. Dorje wrote:If you like to eat mushrooms, you might try growing king stropharia mushrooms on your woodchips. These mushrooms are tasty and their mycelium converts wood chips into rich soil that plants love. They often naturalize and love orchards, berry patches, vegetable gardens and food forests. They are also aggressive and are easy to grow for beginners. I have them growing all over my farm now. By the way, I would like to see more information about wood chippers that do not use gasoline- what a great idea!!
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Tyler Ludens wrote:
M.K. Dorje wrote:If you like to eat mushrooms, you might try growing king stropharia mushrooms on your woodchips. These mushrooms are tasty and their mycelium converts wood chips into rich soil that plants love. They often naturalize and love orchards, berry patches, vegetable gardens and food forests. They are also aggressive and are easy to grow for beginners. I have them growing all over my farm now. By the way, I would like to see more information about wood chippers that do not use gasoline- what a great idea!!
Can you briefly describe how you grow them in woodchips? Do they need a special type of woodchip or will they grow in any kind?
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Cee Ray wrote:phoenix oyster and chicken of the woods (Laetiporus conifericola) grow on conifer wood
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"How should I use a large quantity of wood chips?"
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Michelle Bisson wrote:
Here we used wood chips to level the pathway to our apple and cherry food forest. At the same time, we had 2 "swale" type channels (that were once an old logging trail) that we filled with branches on the pathway like a bridge and covered it with wood chips.
We are not needing our "swales" to be continuous as it is more important to have a stable pathway so the "swales" are devided by our filled in pathway.
We had already used wood chips to create our pathway 2 years ago, but this spring/summer I needed some naturally inoculated fungal compost for planting our sea buckthorn (seaberry) plants so I dug it up and last weekend relayed more wood chips to replace the composted wood chips.
This serves 2 functions: a nice level pathway and also as an easy way to make compost.
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I use the leaf mulch and shredded leaves religiously but that keeps disappearing way too fast on my clay slopes.
It's winter now so I have time till spring to figure out the logistics - I mean, how do I physically do it -- I'm not a young chick, can't use any machinery, not even a wheel barrel, my garden is a 3 three flights of stairs (literally) up so I decided to leave the pile sitting at the bottom of the north slope (an eyesore to the village, wonder when I start getting comments on it). At least, it will catch all the rainfall water. Hope that the pile won't throw off balance the rest of the slope.... I believe I should compost the pile where it is now to avoid doubling the work. So, if anyone kindly could tip me on how to approach that challenge I would be eternally grateful.
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Let's go surfing in my spinach
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