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re: Pine needles, hay, or cypress mulch?
Posted on 2/23/24 at 11:55 am to poochie
Posted on 2/23/24 at 11:55 am to poochie
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would the acidity hurt the shrubs and what not
You should look up those plants before piling on the straw, potentially using it for years. Some thrive in acidic soil and others will die.
Take a stroll through a pine forest and you’ll notice the lack of just about anything growing under the pines. Just too much acid. So yes it will keep the weeds down, a lot of other stuff too though if used longer.
Watch for signs of stress in the plants.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 4:06 pm to Sidicous
I typically put pine straw in my beds out front, once a year. But I just have some large mature Holly plants up there. Every other year I lay it on pretty thick, and the next year it usually just needs topped off. It gets beat down with the wind and rain over time, and eventually breaks down back into the dirt. Smaller decorative stuff like perennials or annuals, I might shy away from it. But it is almost impossible to kill a Holly. I took a chainsaw to mine about a decade ago, down to the root, when they had gotten too big for me to easily keep them trimmed. Within a couple of years, they were about 3 feet tall again and skinny, but thriving. A couple more years and they had gotten thick again.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 4:12 pm to Sidicous
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Take a stroll through a pine forest and you’ll notice the lack of just about anything growing under the pines.
Sure, where it's been controlled by a recent burn. Otherwise, pine forest is typically full of underbrush and understory trees. Pine needles make very good mulch, especially if the needles have been run through a mulcher and chopped up a litte.
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