Tatties with chips ?

[snohare]

So there are my tatties, growing in three nice tidy trenches. And as I think of "happin' them up", and look at the now-compacted, weed ridden clay spoil from the trenches, it occurs to me that I know where I could get any amount of freshly made sawdust and tree chippings - Scot's pine, mainly.
So I think to myself, it would certainly make harvesting the crop easier, but would that do as well as grass cuttings, for keeping out light, protecting from slugs, and retaining moisture ? Or would it be too acidic and burn the tatties/rootlets ?
Any advice or anecdotes welcome, folks. (Including - especially - on this topic.)

[mothhawk]

I'd use it snohare. I don't think the acidity is going to leach all that fast into the soil, you'll have the spuds up in a couple of months, and they don't like it too limey anyway. My only thought would be if the chippings/sawdust heated up too much when it gets wet, but saying that, the grass clippings I used on my earlies got pretty warm, but the spuds seemed to like it, the way they grew!

It'll certainly keep off the slugs, plus encourage beetles, which like wood chippings to hide away in, and beetles love slugs