Many different materials can be used for mulching organic materials such as wood chips or straw and inorganic materials such as rubber and plastic.
Pine fines vs hardwood mulch.
Ground cover type mulches with no fines.
Pine needles aka pine straw hardwood mulch is alkaline.
Hardwood mulch comes in a wide array of varieties and colors from hardwood to pine to cedar to cypress and then from warm red tones to rich browns to the deepest black.
Pine bark mulch or pine fines as it is often called is great to use in a potting mix if you can mix something with it to hold some moisture.
I use about 75 pine bark mulch in my potting mix.
Pine nuggets are a favored mulching material that have several advantages over other traditional mulches.
Mulch vs pine straw.
Pine needles are acidic.
It also comes in many sizes from shredded to large nuggets.
Recently i made this video so you can see what pine bark mulch looks like.
Pine bark mulch helps control weeds and is an attractive alternative to bare soil in yards and gardens.
You may need to amend soil to counteract this if your plants have a strong preference.
However they do biodegrade more quickly and therefore need to be replenished more frequently which offsets.
It is important to note that pine fines mulch may be somewhat misleading.
Available in a range of particle sizes from shreds to nuggets this landscape mulch should.
Nonetheless this price benefit is noticeable only in the short term.
Mulch performs a key role in an attractive healthy garden or landscape but the array of choices can prove daunting.
Pine bark mulch or pine fines.
As a byproduct of pine bark mulch large sized mulch pieces the particle size of pine fines should be very small usually no larger than the size of a fingernail and most often used as a soil conditioner rather than your typical mulch.
It is generally a chip with sizes of 15mm plus.
Pine needles are less expensive and go further.
Hardwood mulch decomposes more slowly so it may not require two applications each year.
Mulch favored by the nsw roads and traffic authority.
Gardeners use mulch to inhibit weeds and help soil to retain moisture and nutrients.
If budget is an important consideration then pine straw is a great choice.
Pine bark and hardwood mulches make up just two.
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