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  • From: "Dean Kreutzer" <deankreutzer@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Orchard Mulch Revisited
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:08:23 -0600

Hello all,

mulch is very over rated.

I have never used cedar mulch, but I use pine bark mulch on every one of my fruit trees, which number in the thousands. Where I live, the cold winters (<-40F) and low amounts of precipitation (6"-8"), makes mulch necessary. Add to the fact that I am organic, the weed suppression alleviates weeding to a certain extent.

There are certainly drawbacks; voles like to nest around the plants and the soil does not warm up as quickly in the spring. But, both those problems can be controlled. For me I certainly will never go back to bare earth.

Dean Kreutzer
Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
USDA zone 3






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