Stump grindings

[Ted in NE-OH]

I had a few large tree stumps ground, is there a good use for the grinding residue?

 

[Charles in Aus.]

It makes a good mulch as long as the trees didn't have a fungal disease . Add some pelletised chicken manure to counteract the Nitrogen depletion that occurs as cellulose breaks down .
Or .
Because the grindings will have a reasonable soil content they will breakdown fairly quickly unlike sawdust or shavings , if you add lots of horse or cow manure and leave it in a pile for a season it will
soon become a beautiful light compost .

 

[Geo-TH,In]

My neighbor is in the stump grinding business. He brings me his grindings. I blend them into compost pile. It takes about 3 years for wood chips to make good compost. The longer they compost the better they get.

I blend in leaves into compost too. Some say it takes about 3 years for leaves to make good compost too.

Some say to speed up composting add nitrogen. Grass clippings compost in weeks and has nitrogen in it. Blend in grass clippings with wet dirt and it smells like manure, horse and cow.

My garden is clay. When wet, it turns to mud. When it's dry, it concrete. I've used compost to break up clay. Makes gardening fun.

 

[Russ from MN]

We use it for mulch, depending on how much dirt is in it.