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Massachusetts

i can get acess to tons what does it do if i add it to patch

3/16/2007 3:13:38 PM

Topsfield, Ma.

Eric, Good post "6 weeks to raise ph" below...:-) Duff

3/16/2007 5:27:24 PM

ties up your nitrogen

3/16/2007 5:38:39 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

Put it in a pile for a few years mixed with some nitrogen and let it set. Don't put it in your patch now.

3/16/2007 9:05:54 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Put it in a pile and forgeta boutit.
Then remember it in a couple yrs.

3/17/2007 12:02:54 AM

Montoursville, PA

A very light dusting of sawdust laying on the soil and not in the soil will not tie up nitrogen. It becomes a light mulch I think is great if not piled on. In a year's time as per growing season that light dusting will become a part of your soil. The above comments are generally good advise. You can add about five percent by volume into your compost pile. It will be a part of the total in about one summer's growing season. In order for this to be true there must be some greens working or fresh manures working to consume the wood. Sawdust from lumber mills makes a great walkway mulch when piled on three or four inchs deep.
Don't do this either if the walkway will be tilled under or into the patch this fall. Again to much at one spot is the issue.

3/18/2007 10:03:56 AM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Remember when getting sawbust from a mill,lumber yard, or contractor. Pressure treated wood used to have Arsenic (to prevent rotting) added/soaked into the wood by pressure vacuming. They banned the practice about 2 yrs ago, but I still have unused boards in my garage. Plus pressure treated sawdust would take a long time to break up.
Somthing I forgot to add earlier.
Captain

3/18/2007 11:01:03 AM

Massachusetts

Nice post guys ya it not pressure treated they have TONS of main trunks and they are always slicing it up into loggs on a machine wich make a big pile then plit it and sell for firewood

3/31/2007 2:28:44 PM