Hello 👋. First of all I live in NL but I thought since we have similar weather I could ask here (Sorry for breaking the rules).
I want to renovate the garden. My garden is full of tiles and I hate them so the plan is to remove them and prepara the garden to have a green garden in spring (hopefully).
This week I had a tree removed in my property since it was causing struvtural damage. The stump was grinded to woodchips.
Now the question. Can I use the woodchips mix it with soil , the bit of sand belle the tiles and quality fertile soil that I had saved (blue container) to let it decompose during winter (up to April given our bad weather) and have a soil ready for May?
I have some gardening equipment to rake the soil that the previous owners left, but I am very new to this.
I am open to all the advice and I appreciate any suggestions you can give. Thank you 😊
by Sunwithlegs
2 Comments
Don’t mix wood chip into the soil. It robs nitrogen from the soil as it breaks down, so nothing will grow properly until it is mostly decomposed.
Either use the wood chip as a mulch for permanent planting, or else pile it somewhere to compost down (ideally mixed with something high in nitrogen like manure).
The wood chip will take longer than a few months to decompose. We had a big tree down 3 years ago and the chippings are only just turning to soil now. We used some for wood chip paths and piled the rest in a corner to rot down.