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  • From: Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulching Orchards
  • Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:04:31 -0700

Were you using whole leaves or did you shred them? Grinding the leaves would eliminate the sheltering effect of whole leaves and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the slug problem. Also, the leaves would break down to humus much faster.



On Oct 29, 2004, at 7:00 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

I used to mulch my fruit trees and cane fruit with leaves but no longer!
There was just too much slug damage. I don't know how but slugs would even
crawl up raspberry canes to chew on its leaves. How they crawl over thick
spines without getting impaled is baffling to me.





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