Pretty much the same question as I asked about wood chip. Compost or mulch?
We’ve finally got round to picking up the last of the sawdust from milling our cladding. It’s been sat where it fell for over 6 months. So it’s very wet and has a little leaf litter in with it. Other than that it’s just a big pile of larch sawdust.
This is some we picked up while we were milling. Probably don’t have quite that much this time round.
Just for idea of amount these are ton bags on a 12ft trailer.
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I've never had that much sawdust at one go, so have no idea, howabout hedging your bets and experimenting with both. It might make paths or act as a soil aerator on clay. The Web says to incorporate lots of green nitrogenous stuff with it in the compost. I suppose I'd use it a bit like I do with woody shreddings in the compost, put some Iin the bottom of the big compost heap to give it time to rot and then intermingle with grass cuttings in the summer. Although, as I said, never had that much to dispose of.
Is there a way to make it into brickettes for log fires?
I would use it for paths or mulch. If you use it for paths over membrane then when it has rotted it can be scraped off and added to the beds.
Well here it is! It’s considerably more than we’d expected!
The bags contain the same amount as the heap. I know that because we ran out of bags and had to empty them all then go back a second time to refill them
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That’s very helpful thanks veggie.
Have vast amounts of wood for the fire at the moment with all the off cuts from the milling. I’d rather use it in the garden if I can.
Thinking aloud here - wonder if you could sow seeds in it - big seeds like peas & beans. Just to germinate them, then plant out into normal stuff.
You have enough sawdust to sow enough beans to cover Mull.
When I first got one of my previous allotments there was a pile of horse pee impregnated sawdust from the stables dumped on site and no-one wanted it. I had a new plot which i didn't fancy digging so all i did was dig holes with one spadeful of soil, plonked a seed tattie in hole, filled it with sawdust mix and put the soil I had taken out on top. I had a wonderful crop of lovely clean potatoes that year and it really helped break up the soil the second year! I suppose a sprinkling of sulphate of ammonia would have given the same effect as hoss pee?
