Re: mulch for Siberians
-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
Special Offer-Earn 300 Points from MyPoints.com for trying @Backup
Get automatic protection and access to your important computer files.
Install today:
http://click.egroups.com/1/6347/6/_/496957/_/968321267/
---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
Ellen,
I am like you, I love my neighbors pine straw and they love for me to come
and take it away. I think that is part of gardening, "harvesting" mulch and
compost materials, especially from people who don't see or know its value.
We have had several years of drought and the pines have shed their needles
quite heavily to cope with the stress so it does not take much time or a
large area to gather all I need.
Have you noticed any soil change from using pine strw mulch, other than the
usual mulch benefits? Like lowering of ph or toxicity build up?
Karl Miller
Lark Label
Custom Imaged Solid Metal Plant Labels
----- Original Message -----
From: Ellen Gallagher <irisgardens@hotmail.com>
To: <sibrob@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 6:43 AM
Subject: [sibrob] mulch for Siberians
>
> Hi Bill and all,
>
> I have used pine straw for the past few years as a year-round mulch.
>
> It is plentiful around here and free. Folks seem delighted if you offer to
> rake their needles off of their lawns plus there are large
> stands of pines in public place. My current source is an out-of-the way
> cemetery in town. Once I located whom to call and ask if I could
> collect the pine straw, all I do is arrive with some leaf bags and a
bamboo
> rake.
>
> Incidentally, this is a very old Jewish cemetery and it is an experience
> just reading the gravestones harking back two centuries so it is also a
> history lesson for this area. I also have found myself
> doing some light weeding of the perennials around some graves for families
> that no longer live up here...sort of a thank you for the pine straw and
it
> seems the right thing to do.
>
> Ellen Gallagher
> Berlin, NH
> Zone 3 (first frost today....)
>
>
>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
>
> Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
> http://profiles.msn.com.
>
>
>
>
