Introduction
Hello all. This is my first post to this forum which I enjoy and have been reading for around two months. I am from Ann Arbor, MI and just stated gardening.
On my property which is just a little over a normal city lot I have a mini pine forest (around 10 trees) growing along my back fence. This summer I cut down probably 30 - 40 Buckthorn bushes because it seemed like they were killing my pines. They grew up into the lower branches and filled the entire mini forest.
Now, they are growing back from the roots which I didn't remove. It occurred to me that it may be a good idea to cut these little shoots down and throw them in my garden (which is around 50 yards from the mini forest) like a chop and drop type thing to help build up organic material.
Also, I am starting a new garden area and was wondering if I could just throw them there as well and over time it would help build up the soil. The area is currently just grass, a little top soil then clay.
Is this a bad idea? My thought is that while it is decomposing in my veggie garden it would use up nitrogen or something like that and my peppers would not do so well. I am new so this may not be a good assumption.
Essentially I want to take something that was undesirable and use it to do something useful.
Thanks,
Jim
