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Looking to ensure that your plants really thrive this year?
Believe it or not, the best mulch is already in your yard, not at the gardening store.
Below, gardening experts chime in to highlight the many benefits that pine needles have to offer.
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Most store-bought mulches, she says, will not last for nearly that amount of time.
“This alone saves a lot of time re-mulching, money, and work,” she says.
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But that isn’t the only benefit of pine needles taking longer to decompose.
Sons explains how pine needles also offer many soil nutrients where they are placed rather than the fast-composing mulches.
“All you need is a big pine tree,” Sons says.
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Additionally, pine needles do not require a whole slew of materials to crush.
One could also take pine needles from a garland and follow the same approach.
