| bapeyton@gmail.com 2007-02-13, 3:25 am |
| I should have said I was half wrong.It can be adviseable to full burnt
chunks of wood when planting in areas with poor or slow drainage, and
anywhere else plants can aquire root rot. The burt chunk of wood are
more advisible the that from a mine because it has some ash content to
it. It may even be advisible for grapes, if they need to be planted in
soil with alot of decay from plant material. Burnt chunks of wood or
coal should slow down rate and decrease potancy of decaing matter.
With fully burnt chunks of wood the plant should be able to tolate
mulch from plant matter and dung that is not aged enough.
I still recomend no mulch from plant matter or dead animal meat.
It is best, if possible to plant the a fruit tree in good soil with
approitate drainage for the plant and just condition the soil with
ashes and salt if approiate for the plant.
Then use aged human dung mixed with ashes, hair, ground up bones, egg
shells, milk, crushed up rocks, and blood for fertlizer.
For a old tree with root decay which or expecialy apple trees having
problems in poor dranage area. It might help to dig around it in the
winter when the ground is not frozen and the roots are most dormant
and place some soil with fully burnt chunks with a little ash around
it. If soil is bad it might be best to replace some of it with
different soil. Might be best not to dig to much at once and work
slowly around the tree over a couple of years.
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