Five inches of pine needles certainly delays my raspberries. It
probably also delays the apples but I can't say for sure because I don't
have any unmulched apples to compare it to.
Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)
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Jim Fruth, 07/30/2010