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Re: mulch

Isabelle,

I suggest that you leave the pine needles beneath the trees -- the trees
need the mulch of their needles for several reasons, water conservation,
maintaining cool roots, and recycling nutrients that are in those needles.
If you must rake, rake into a neat pile under the drip line of the trees.
The trees will be MUCH happier with a mulch of their own needles than with
bare ground, grass, or anything else.

So says Nan Sterman...

>Greetings:  I read somewhere that pine needles can be used as mulch;  now
>since our property has many many pine trees and we gather trillions of pine
>needles every year, we have a good supply of same; I'd love to use them as
>mulch, but am afraid their acidity (?) will leach into the soil;
>
>what says the list?
>
>Isabelle Hayes
>
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Nan Sterman                                    Design For Learning
nsterman@ucsd.edu                      205 Cole Ranch Road
760 634-2902                                  Olivenhain, CA 92024
760634-2957 (fax)

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