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  1. Inna Kozhukh, Smolensk

    Tell me, will the needles from the New Year trees be useful for the garden?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - Coniferous beauties (spruce, pine, fir) after the New Year holidays can serve the owners one more service. Chop thin twigs and, together with the crumbling needles, fill them in paper bags (cardboard boxes, thick sugar bags), store in a dry place (pantry, garage). In the spring, this material is useful to mulch the soil around the plantings of onions and strawberries (so that weeds do not grow and do not annoy the disease), as well as the root zone of flowering perennials that love acidified soil (hydrangeas, heather, etc.).

      In addition, fresh needles are good protection against small rodents. not every mouse, even in a hungry season, will climb for a tasty root through a thorny barrier.
      The coniferous trunk and the thickest branches can be cut into pieces, brought to the country and burned, having obtained excellent charcoal, with which plants are powdered during the growing season from harmful insects.

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  2. Tatyana Kravtsova, Penza

    Does sawdust mulching affect soil acidity? Wouldn't such a mulch harm flowers?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - Mulch helps retain moisture in the soil, makes it more loose, protects flowers from weeds. In addition, during the decomposition of mulch, the soil is saturated with the necessary micro and macro elements, and the number of beneficial microorganisms increases in it.

      When sawdust (especially conifers) is added, the soil can become acidic. To neutralize, it is enough to add 200 g of chalk or dolomite flour per 1 sq. Mulch with a layer thickness of 10-15 cm. It is important to mulch not fresh sawdust, but rotted for 2-3 years (adding humus or a microbiological preparation, such as “ Baikal EM-1 ”, reduces the period of decaying at positive temperature, respectively, to six months or 3-4 months).
      If you want your planting to look beautiful, use wood chips or bark (it looks more natural). The bark does not decompose much longer due to the fact that it has a larger fraction, which means that it can not harm either the soil or the flowers.

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