Living · 6 pages · 12 min
Why wood chips and fresh manure are different mulches
Wood chips are a dry carbon cover, while fresh manure is wet, salty, and rich.
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From the opening
Wood chips and fresh manure can both be spread on the ground, and they are different materials doing different things. Chips are a coarse, carbon-rich cover that breaks down slowly, while fresh manure is wet animal waste, already biologically active and rich in available nitrogen and salts. The opening covers slow carbon cover versus fresh waste, ammonia, salts, and scorch, and composted manure is a third thing.
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Inside
- Slow carbon cover versus fresh waste
- Ammonia, salts, and scorch
- Composted manure is a third thing
- Surface chips do not strip the bed
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Carbon-rich woody mulch versus fresh manure
- Soluble salts and ammonia in uncomposted manure