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Thread #168878 Message #4079350
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Nov-20 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening Tips
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening Tips
Adding sawdust to soil will result in nitrogen robbery. Not great. As for eggshells, you'd need to eat an awful lot of eggs in order to generate enough shell to make any difference to soil pH. I suppose that the Epsom salts would then come in handy to, er, keep you going. As for straw in gardens, by far the best thing to do would be to compost it with some high-nitrogen material such as annual weeds, nettles and grass clippings. Even better is if you can get your hands on some strawy horse manure to stack up and cover for a few weeks. It's unfortunate that many stables use wood chips or sawdust for bedding. If that's all you can get it needs stacking for a long time before use. A problem with fresh straw is that it can be high in the residues of whatever pesticides the farmer used.