Moriah Taylor

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 :)

Wow! Thank-you for all of the helpful information.
Yes, the trees were planted in a yard... we are removing the sod and putting down mulch as suggested, tonight!
I bet this is part of what is wrong with some blueberries I planted a couple of years ago, which are alive but haven't grown a bit -opps-
I attached a photo of one of the stems, the bark is white, thoughts?
Also in the third photo you can see how far the new trees are from very old fruit trees (not very). The old ones make tiny, sour, apple scab, deformed apples. I asked when we bought the new trees if the old have to be cut down and done away with first, or if we should plant the new far from these old ones and they told me no, it wouldn't be an issue. What are your thoughts on this? I just want to make sure :) All of my knowledge lies extensively with animals. We wouldn't take a diseased old back yard bred unproductive goat and breed it to a show dairy goat or keep them together so it seems odd to me but I know very little of trees.

Well shoot! Different things huh? So, in my brief understanding their outlook isnt good.
What should we do?

I will be researching tomorrow.

Thank-you for the welcome, I'm glad I found this forum, it seems like there are a lot of interesting things to learn here!

We planted 5 trees six weeks ago. 3 apple. 2 peach. None look happy. I was instructed to water well 3 times a week, fertilize once weekly. All summer. With something that looks scary and is called blue juice. I've done that a few times, not once a week. I was told if any look like they have fungus or bugs, to spray once weekly with Neem oil in water. I've done that one time recently to see if that helped. It didn't seem to.
After sending the photos of the trees now to one of the people we got them through I was told to stop fertilizing until fall.
I know nothing about trees, I thought I was prepared to try after reading books about planting them, but, is this really just going to go away with stopping fertilizing?