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  • From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Was: Weed fabric; Now: Mulch and Stink Bugs
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:18:46 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,

This site seems to indicate that dormant oil does contain mineral oil.

I was using both dormant oil, and lime sulfur at growing season rates, but
I must have overdone it.

Thanks for the info.

Tom

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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Sam Franc wrote:

> Sitka spruce needles are much like fir needles and make a good mulch.
> But when they fall in the forest floor they mat down so they do not rake
> easily.
>
> You really need to use a shovel or a fork to lift them up. It is quite a
> bit of
> work, not like raking up pine needles. Then there is not the volume that a
> pine
> tree creates. The neeldes are only about an inch long and I think they stay
> on
> the tree longer than pine needles.
> I do spread them on the garden when I clean up the gutters and the drives,
> but
> that only produces a couple of wheelbarrows a year. For mulch I need volumn
> and
> that is why I use wood chips and sawdust.
> Over the past 8 years I have put 2 chip truck loads on my trees. (160 c.y.)
> It
> would take me 250 years to get that volumn from the spruce and fir needles.
> Sam
>
> Doreen Howard wrote:
>
> > Douglas fir needles will work fine--I've used them.? Raking up pine
> > needles
> > isn't a bad chore.? When I lived in Springfield, IL, I'd take my
> > wheelbarrow
> > out into the greenbelt and fill it within 5 minutes.? Same in Texas--there
> > it is was Loblolly pine, a white pine that took the heat.? In fact, all
> > the
> > neighbors would rake up the needles and put them out in the trash. So, I'd
> > take my wheelbarrow and go up and down the alley collecting the black
> > plastic bags filled with needles.? I become know as the Bag Lady of Hurst
> > Place.? Soon, I had the neighbors trained.? They'd pitch their bags filled
> > with needles over my back fence or pile them in the driveway.
> > D.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> > To: Doreen Howard <doreenh@ticon.net>
> > Cc: NAFEX List <nafex@egroups.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 10:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [nafex] Was: Weed fabric; Now: Mulch and Stink Bugs
> >
> > >Pine straw is nonexistent here.? Closest thing might be Doug fir needles,
> > >but I'd have to go into a planting and rake them myself - they aren't
> > >sold.
> > >----------
> > >>From: "Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>
> > >>To: <nafex@egroups.com>
> > >>Subject: [nafex] Was: Weed fabric; Now: Mulch and Stink Bugs
> > >>Date: Tue, Jul 4, 2000, 6:09 PM
> > >>
> > >
> > >>Lon, don't you have access to pine straw?? It stops about any weed, and
> > >>it
> > >>deters slugs and many other pests.
> > >>
> > >
> >
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