What to do with leylandii woodchip?

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Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 11:21 am Post subject: What to do with leylandii woodchip?
The back of the 4x4 is currently full of leylandii woodchip. What's the best thing to do with it. Is it any good as a mulch or will it release odd things into the soil and kill my plants?

derbyshiredowser

Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 980
Location: derbyshire

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 11:35 am Post subject:
Hi I chipped 26 compost bags of it last year and I use it as chipped bark paths around 2" thick over ground cover fabric. It seems a bit to fragrant and oily to actually use round plants.

earthmamma

Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Posts: 411
Location: West Wiltshire

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 11:36 am Post subject:
I would only use as a pathway material.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 12:24 pm Post subject:
Thanks folks, that's pretty much what I thought .... and we have no paths that need mulching. Anyone want a load of woodchip?

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 12:37 pm Post subject:
Free delivery?

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 12:50 pm Post subject:
Nah - free to collect though

earthmamma

Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Posts: 411
Location: West Wiltshire

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 12:55 pm Post subject:
Free accomodation?

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 1:00 pm Post subject:
Through HelpX - yes

earthmamma

Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Posts: 411
Location: West Wiltshire

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 1:10 pm Post subject:
Oow, what a useful site ahve added it to my favourites for future reference. Ta muchly.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4637
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Sun May 27, 12 2:38 pm Post subject:

Green Rosie wrote:

Through HelpX - yes

I shouldn't have clicked that link. And then gone looking at Australian organic farmsteads....

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 12 7:54 am Post subject:
I have used it on our beds (we had 2 large leylandii trees removed) and it has been fine. You need to leave it for a few weeks to be rained on and it tends to neutralise.

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 12 2:01 pm Post subject:
My allotment neighbour used it to mulch his strawberry patch last year, and it didn't seem to do any harm.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 12 2:13 pm Post subject:
It went on a friend's woodland garden paths in the end.

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