In some areas of the country, the choice between mulching with pine needles and wood mulch is a tough one. Since the 1980s, pine straw has been the favorite mulch in the South. It is inexpensive, ...

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If you need to top up the mulch in your garden, you might be faced with the choice between using pine bark or pine straw.

Right under our collective noses - and probably in your very own yard - is a great gardening tool that we have typically shunned. Pine straw. Raked up often to be disposed of, this all-natural, ...

Over the years, I’ve had many questions from readers about using pine straw as a mulch in the vegetable garden. Is it a good idea? Let’s cover some of the basics. Mulching is a long-established ...

Love it or hate it, pine straw is everywhere if you live in the Southeast. The needles slowly drift down from loblollies and longleaf pines, blanketing lawns and driveways and piling on top of shrubs ...

GLENMOORE >> Longleaf pine straw is a popular southern landscaping product – used as mulch in a variety of applications. That product is now available locally. Mid-Atlantic Pine Straw Mulch is owned ...

In last week’s column, I shared a reader’s enthusiasm for using pine straw in the garden/landscape. Since then, I’ve received several emails questioning why it was not mentioned that, for better or ...

North Carolina's piney landscape is fertile ground for what many call "brown gold." Pine straw is big business across the Southeast -- raking in about 200 million dollars every year. North Carolina's ...

RALEIGH Three years ago, 32 townhomes in Pine Knolls Townes were destroyed by a raging fire. That ignited the local pine straw debate. That year, Chapel Hill imposed the first local rules on pine ...

Firefighters know pine straw is a threat. It burns twice as hot as cypress mulch and, once lit, spreads the flame more than 7 feet per minute. Other North Carolina cities regulate the use of pine ...