Composting Hardwood Chips

Since creating a profile on arbtalk we have had some good quality wood chip dropped on site.

Composting hardwood chips.

Again the composting process. Previously we have had local tree surgeons dropping but we could never get enough we now have a decent size pile which we will surely. Eucalyptus eucalyptus trees are known to be allelopathic and inhibit the growth of other plants. You can begin building your wood chip pile year round but for the fastest results arrange to have chips delivered during the late winter or early spring.

Can you compost wood chips. Compost junkie dave hi paul when you say the wood chips aren t breaking down fast enough what do you mean. Composting the chips should remove this toxicity but it s still best to err on the side of caution. Here s an experiment wood chip composting.

Using wood chips and other organic matter is the major premise behind the back to eden. Take a leaf out of a french inventor s book for a compost heap that s cheap as chips there are only so many wood chipping paths you can make photograph. This will give you 3 to 8 months of warmer weather for the chips to break down. According to the university of florida s online composting center wood chips provide a carbon source for composting.

Also what else are you putting into the pile to balance out the. Alamy there are only so many. Can wood chips hot compost on their own. Jan 25 2012 rating harness the power of fungi by.

Watch this video to see how to get your wood chips to break down fast.