Love it or hate it, pine straw is everywhere if you live in the Southeast. The needles slowly drift down from loblollies and ...

Some folks will say that pine straw makes your soil acidic. I think that we’ve just repeated this so often that we think it is fact, but research would say otherwise. Even though green pine ...

I was teaching our new class of Master Gardeners recently about mulches, and the question about pine straw came about. One lady sheepishly admitted that while she lived in Tennessee, they would buy ...

The biggest challenge with pine straw is that it is difficult to keep clean. If you have big old hollies that drop old, yellowed leaves in early summer (a normal thing for hollies) those big, long ...

Here, there are two winners. Pine straw is generally harvested from agroforestry operations where the needles are simply collected as they naturally fall from the branches. It is light weight ...