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Charlotte, North Carolina

Is it okay to bury vines with sawdust?

7/21/2001 8:15:25 PM

Western Pa.

Sawdust is high in carbon content, and thus will rob your soil, and possibly pumpkin plants,of nitrogen. It will also lower your soil PH. Two reasons why I wouldn't recommend covering your vines with sawdust.You'd be better off adding it to your compost pile for next year, just be sure that none of the sawdust is from treated wood, which contains arsenic and other nasty stuff.

kilr

7/21/2001 8:51:45 PM

western Kentucky

I am putting rotten sawdust over my vines, but it has had time to decay. The sawdust that i use is 30 years old and could be more correctly called dirt. It is really black.

Justin

7/21/2001 11:27:20 PM

Puyallup, WA

Got an extra 60 yards of that "good stuff"?

7/22/2001 1:27:08 AM

western Kentucky

probally........ but it would be to easy to get it to WA:)
I use the richest stuff around here i mix the sawdust with cow crap from an old barn, the cow stuff is about 10 years old..... my pumpkin sure seems to like it.

Justin

7/22/2001 1:05:37 PM

Charlotte, North Carolina

The sawdust I am using came from three trees I cut down in my front yard, not from treated wood. Is it still okay?

7/22/2001 1:45:49 PM