RE: Pine needles
- Subject: RE: Pine needles
- From: &* S* <p*@re-taste.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:12:46 +0200
Hello Jean
My experience with pine needles ....We have about 15 Pinus halepensis which
give an enormous amount of needles and which need to be cleaned up at least
twice in the autumn. I have read and been told that they are a good mulch
to leave on the garden. We leave them on over the summer ostensibly to keep
the ground damp underneath but experience is telling me that is not
happening and they instead have a drying effect unless they are mixed with
other foliage. So I am afraid we cannot be as ecological as we would like
to be with pine needles. We take most of them away but do still leave an
amount around e.g once the autumn clean up is done we don't clean them up
again.
Best wishes to you.
Pamela
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
[o*@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf Of Jean Vaché
Sent: 23 October 2008 10:46
To: Medit Plants
Subject: Pine needles
Hello everyone,
As I walked in my garden this morning, I was wondering what to do
with the pine needles that fall in great quantities at the end of
Summer.
I am sure fellow members of the list have judicious and ecological
answers to offer me.
All best
Jean Vaché,
Languedoc, France
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