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Posted by Linda on October 8, 2008, 9:36 pm
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> Hi,
>
> Its been over 6 months since i posted about my pine mulch problem so I
> thought I'd share whats happened since I used the mulch.
>
> Backdrop: I have a dozen conifer pine trees - had them pruned back and
> mulched the residue.
>
> There was a fair bit of the mulch and I couldn't just store it in one
> location in my garden.
>
> The amount could be roughly about 10 - 20 large compost bins full. And i
> only have 2.
>
> So what I did was I stored what I could in my 2 bins. Then I spread it
> around in my garden as best as I could.
>
> The mulch seem to turn into something more useful if its placed into open
> piles and turned around every month or so.
>
> The ones in the compost bin looked like they turned kind of sour like -
> probably due to a lack of water. I travel a fair bit sometimes and don't
> get enough time to do necessary stuff in the garden. So I emptied it out -
> and after a very short while - it smelt better - that humus pleasant
> earthly kind of smell.
>
> The other stuff which I spread around the garden also seemed to turn up
> quite nicely too. No plants died but I was careful not to spread it too
> thickly. In the areas where i did spread it thickly, the yellow daisy
> marguirites loved it.
>
> Now comes the second stage - where I have to take the pine mulch in the
> storage areas to the rest of the garden. Great time to do it too - as I'm
> getting a fair bit of weeds/ grass runners in the flower beds.
Thankyou YMC, your research is appreciated!
I have a rather large conifer shedding a humungus amount of pine needles and
was worried about using them as mulch. I think I shall use them in the
garden beds as a weed retardant.
It all helps!
Linda (Perth WA) :-)
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