Comments on: materials for path surfaces, black spot and powdery mildew, and more: q&a with ken druse https://awaytogarden.com/materials-for-path-surfaces-black-spot-and-powdery-mildew-and-more-qa-with-ken-druse/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:59:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Timothy Gillane https://awaytogarden.com/materials-for-path-surfaces-black-spot-and-powdery-mildew-and-more-qa-with-ken-druse/comment-page-1/#comment-1303106 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:59:12 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=45565#comment-1303106 What’s the best way to create a woodland path to begin with? We have woods around our house (but on the property) in northeastern Connecticut, and I’d like to make a walking path or paths. However, the path(s) wouldn’t have frequent groups of people on it like a path in a state forest to keep it clear and tamped down a bit. The path would be too long to cover the whole route with wood chips or gravel. I saw your article in the NY Times today about the man who created a path system and garden in an “uncooperative” area, and our woods crossed my mind.

Thanks.

]]> By: margaret https://awaytogarden.com/materials-for-path-surfaces-black-spot-and-powdery-mildew-and-more-qa-with-ken-druse/comment-page-1/#comment-1066250 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:27:46 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=45565#comment-1066250 In reply to Forrest Jones.

Hi, Forrest. For paths on an incline, I find them slippery/unstable. I use them for paths on flat areas (like between my raised beds) and for mulching looser areas away from the house where it’s moistly shrubbery. I just don’t want to walk on them on a sloped path like that reader was asking about.

]]> By: Cindy https://awaytogarden.com/materials-for-path-surfaces-black-spot-and-powdery-mildew-and-more-qa-with-ken-druse/comment-page-1/#comment-1066248 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:16:49 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=45565#comment-1066248 Mulberry mulch is a nice reddish brown. Or. That non native olive. You can take the larger chips, maybe add cooking oil, sometimes vinegar, and use it to grill. Or in a brazier.

I was in a very enriched foster child situation for some years. I used to collect fuel for braziers for various very old people. They watched me like a hawk. Gardeners have access to things. I was very sick to begin with and i had my own medical student during the day. He polished all the braziers along with tending to me. He made medicine by rendering down leaf lard and other oils with various plant materials. Gerta got high quality fuel oil from an engineering professor after he was done with it. He bought it special from
the middle east. He got salve in return. He was messing around with damascus steel.

Black spot all the rose funguses are edible. On the order of corn smut. I never noticed much taste, when i had them as an ingredient in tea or a bouquet garni.

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