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  • From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] pine needle mulch
  • Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:17:09 -0400

Jim wrote, "As a retired chemist, I appreciate your experiments and respect your results.
But as a gardener, I have observed that "acid-loving plants", such as holly, azalea, and blueberry all thrive well when mulched with pine needles..."
 
Well, I have also noticed that they all thrive under a hardwood mulch as do most other woody perennials.  If you're interested in theorizing what it is about pine needles that make them a superior mulch to something else you better try some experiments using both.  
 
Blueberries suffer from drought, holly and azalea suffer from winter dehydration so I would assume most any mulch would be helpful.  I would put my money on wood over needles, though, because rottting wood holds much more water than pine needles and also encourages more earthworms.


  • [NAFEX] pine needle mulch, Alan Haigh, 10/27/2009

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