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This thread follows on from one earlier involving pine needles and blueberry plants.
I have 3 large pine trees which shed huge amounts of needles that i generally burn. However, my asparagus bed is coming up to it's third year and i am expecting to take my first harvest next year.
I have prepared the bed for winter by cutting back the fronds and covering with a 4" mixture of 50% home grown compost and 50% chicken litter (bark chippings and poo !!). Then as a covering for frost protection i have used a thick layer of pine needles.
The comment in the previous thread about adding pine needles to increase the acidity of the ground concerned me so do you think i might be inadvertantly creating more problems than answers by using the pine needles.? I do intend removing the needles in the spring as the weather improves.
I have 3 large pine trees which shed huge amounts of needles that i generally burn. However, my asparagus bed is coming up to it's third year and i am expecting to take my first harvest next year.
I have prepared the bed for winter by cutting back the fronds and covering with a 4" mixture of 50% home grown compost and 50% chicken litter (bark chippings and poo !!). Then as a covering for frost protection i have used a thick layer of pine needles.
The comment in the previous thread about adding pine needles to increase the acidity of the ground concerned me so do you think i might be inadvertantly creating more problems than answers by using the pine needles.? I do intend removing the needles in the spring as the weather improves.
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