That's for sure. I use wood chip as a mulch. Not found it to deleterious so far.
For reasons I won't bore you with, I ended up with a big glob of sawdust at one end of what is now a flower bed. Now that has definitely been a problem - it is resisting decomposition even 6 years after it was dumped in the ground, despite being broken up, mixed in, covered over. I still find lumps of it and that part of the bed definitely has lower fertility than the surrounding soil. So there obviously is some process to do with wood and decomposition that can be an issue. What the chemistry of that is I have no idea.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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That's for sure. I use wood chip as a mulch. Not found it to deleterious so far.
For reasons I won't bore you with, I ended up with a big glob of sawdust at one end of what is now a flower bed. Now that has definitely been a problem - it is resisting decomposition even 6 years after it was dumped in the ground, despite being broken up, mixed in, covered over. I still find lumps of it and that part of the bed definitely has lower fertility than the surrounding soil. So there obviously is some process to do with wood and decomposition that can be an issue. What the chemistry of that is I have no idea.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”