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Re: advice sought

Yes! Get them off the grass.  Save them for your acid loving plants like
strawberries.
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> From: RobsGardn@aol.com
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: advice sought
> Date: Monday, 20 October, 1997 07:27
> 
> As I recall, pine needles are very acidic and should be removed from
grass
> unless your soil needs the acid. Most of the soil here in the East is too
> acid already. They are good for mulch around acid loving plants (azalea)
I
> think.
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> From: Isabelle Hayes <bhayes@zelacom.com>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: advice sought
> Date: Monday, 20 October, 1997 07:17
> 
> Greetings gentlefolk:
> 
> We have lots of deciduous trees on our little acre and a half, also
> evergreens;  we have lots of pine needles too;
> 
> in those areas where we want the grass to flourish, is it better to rake
the
> leaves/needles up now, or to leave them covering the grass and pick them
up
> in the spring?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Isabelle Hayes
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