bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
Local electric company is trimming trees / tree limbs along power lines that run along the front of my property.
![Trees Being Trimmed.jpg Trees Being Trimmed.jpg](https://habitat-talk.com/data/attachments/50/50403-3882ee9038e35f2d882570572f1f2f49.jpg)
Talked to the crew chief doing the work and asked if it would be any help for him to dump truckloads of chips in a big pile on my place and he said he was more than happy to do so, saving his trucks from having to drive quite a distance to where they otherwise would dump.
The wood chips are primarily going to be mixture of limbs from water oaks, sweetgums, hickory, and a bit of pine.
In the past I've done lots of mulching with truck loads of leaf litter I get from the parking lot at an office my wife and I run, but I've never used wood chips. That said, I've got no shortage of potential uses -- 24 pecan trees, 50 sawtooth oak trees, a dozen or so chestnut trees, 8 pear trees, and about 20 crabapple trees growing in my outer yard / fields, and closer to the house I've got a rosebed that is nice but constantly weedy, as well as 4 oriental persimmons, couple of peach trees, and a couple of fig trees. Everything I've listed has stayed relatively healthy to date with either occasional leaf mulching and / or just mowing tall grass down making a layer of hay around the trees. I'm in Florida, so everything can get a bit stressed during hot summers if we go a while without rain.
Looking for ALL tips and wisdom those of you who use wood chips can offer, such as any concerns I might should have on pH (our soils run acidic in general - in the mid 5 range if not limed), mulch aging (better to let age before application?), best tree species to use wood chips with and / or any to avoid, and all things I might not be considering?
MUCH appreciate any / all advice.
![Trees Being Trimmed.jpg Trees Being Trimmed.jpg](https://habitat-talk.com/data/attachments/50/50403-3882ee9038e35f2d882570572f1f2f49.jpg)
Talked to the crew chief doing the work and asked if it would be any help for him to dump truckloads of chips in a big pile on my place and he said he was more than happy to do so, saving his trucks from having to drive quite a distance to where they otherwise would dump.
The wood chips are primarily going to be mixture of limbs from water oaks, sweetgums, hickory, and a bit of pine.
In the past I've done lots of mulching with truck loads of leaf litter I get from the parking lot at an office my wife and I run, but I've never used wood chips. That said, I've got no shortage of potential uses -- 24 pecan trees, 50 sawtooth oak trees, a dozen or so chestnut trees, 8 pear trees, and about 20 crabapple trees growing in my outer yard / fields, and closer to the house I've got a rosebed that is nice but constantly weedy, as well as 4 oriental persimmons, couple of peach trees, and a couple of fig trees. Everything I've listed has stayed relatively healthy to date with either occasional leaf mulching and / or just mowing tall grass down making a layer of hay around the trees. I'm in Florida, so everything can get a bit stressed during hot summers if we go a while without rain.
Looking for ALL tips and wisdom those of you who use wood chips can offer, such as any concerns I might should have on pH (our soils run acidic in general - in the mid 5 range if not limed), mulch aging (better to let age before application?), best tree species to use wood chips with and / or any to avoid, and all things I might not be considering?
MUCH appreciate any / all advice.