Another bonus of using wool as a gardening aid is that it diverts wool waste from landfills and returns its nutrients to soils
One of my friends knows a woman in Wales who has a hobby of working with wool and colouring it with natural, botanical dyes. She uses her tag ends of wool in her large, walled garden, digging the wool lightly into the soil. She also uses pellets made from sheep wool in the garden.
Guess what I got for Christmas? A bag of Long Way Homestead wool pellets. They look a little like bunny poop. My friend likes the smell. I find it a bit whiffy. I’ve secured the bag in a well sealed container in the carport, lest one of the carnivorous creatures that roam the garden at night becomes attracted to the scent of mutton on the hoof and decides to stick around.
Something I did not know before is that wool is a natural slug repellent. Slugs risk drying out from the need to produce too much slime to overcome the tiny irritating barbs in wool. The barrier works only for a while. Plants like tomatoes, peppers and broccoli can benefit from the pellets scratched lightly into the soil surface around them as they begin to form the first fruits and florets.
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