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["Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>]

Tom,

It is quite practical, especially when you have hundreds of oak trees 
surrounding your plantings as we do around our raspberries.  We have 3 sites 
for our berries, all 3 being surrounded by oaks.  We let the leaves collect 
around the plants and they provide a natural mulch.  Works great and the 
best part is that it costs us nothing!!

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 8:20 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] mulching


> Hello All,
>
> Regading mulch on thorny plants...
>
> Why not use leaves?
>
> If they are protected from getting too wet, they will blow away, when wind 
> and water protection is removed.
>
> Cover plants with leaves (collected from urban roadsides bagged leaves), 
> cover leaf pile with a tarp, remove tarp mid March.
>
> Have not tried it, but is sounds practical.
>
> Later,
> Tom
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