Pine Needles

[thewoodlands]

Not sure if this should go here but is there any good uses for pine needles.

Zap

 

[Wood Duck]

Pine needles ('Pine Straw') are a popular mulch. You can buy them by the bale in the south. I never see them for sale around here (Pennsylvania).

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Throw some around your blueberries.

 

[thewoodlands]

Throw some around your blueberries.

Think the bears would mind, I was just wondering if they are good for composting maybe putting them down on trails.

Sav do you think I could make a firestarter called superneedles.

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[Backwoods Savage]

Zap, I've never tried to burn them except maybe when raking some leaves and pine needles get mixed in. All smoke as far as I could see but there weren't many. Maybe mix some pine needles with was and give it a try?!

 

[Clarkbar2311]

If one had a pellet mill I bet they could made into biomass pellets or brickets.

 

[ChillyGator]

Not sure if this should go here but is there any good uses for pine needles.

Zap

mulch

 

[LLigetfa]

They tend to make the soil more acidic so any acid loving plant will benefit from the mulch.

 

[rottiman]

Full of Tanic Acid. They burn heck out of a lawn if you don't get them up. Also hard on asphalt roof shingles as well. Having 27 mature pines on my lot is actually a nuisance between the pine needles, pine cones, blanket of yellow pollen and the never ending barrage of limbs every time there is a strong wind. Then you really get to appreciate them when there is an Ice storm........................If they were worth something, I would take them down, but right now we have white and red pine coming out our eyeballs in this area and they aren't even worth messing with.

 

[Lumber-Jack]

How about some Pine needle tea

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