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.