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Sawdust
Clarington
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We have in the museum a surplus of fine sawdust.
Its not just the house that is undergoing the redesign treatment: the museum is hosting a new exhibition too and with that comes in the construction team (well one chap and his tape measure).
The sawdust (or at least the wood it once was) is treated so obviously wont be making its way onto the vegetable beds but is there anything that can make use of it in the garden before I let it disappear into our already overly full bins?
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Clarington, each time I post about wood, burning composting or as a mulch my head gets chewed off. Much as we gardeners hate waste and would re-use the nails from the Ark, there is little that can be done with your saw dust. Using it in any way on the garden is out having no idea what it is sealed with or from where it came. Making brickets and burning is out as apparently so many people now have wood burners they are causing smogs, polluting the atmosphere and thus destroying the planet. That is not me by the way but the latest information from the greens. It seems the only way is bin it unless you sell it by the bag to the wood burning power stations springing up in our area, the N E, it may save a boat load from Canada. Now I would ask, how is that reducing greenhouse gasses. Cutting, then to the docks, a long boat journey to Teesside, it must make sense to someone though not me.
Frank.
Fank: having worked at a wood chip powers power station I think the amount we have here would be laughed at!
It seemed common sense to check; after all I'd have kicked myself if you all said it made great packing for all those terracotta pots that need protecting over the worst of winter.
Wood used for human purposes is supposed to be treated with non-harmful chemicals. You pays your money and takes your choice.....personally I think sprinkling it on the ground with your fertilizer/mulch is less harmful than other methods of disposal.
Last edited: 06 December 2016 23:28:53
add it with grass clippings to the compost bins