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Old 07-21-2009, 12:59 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Default Re: Would Pine Needle Mulch Work For Bananas?

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Originally Posted by alexizhere19 View Post
Quote by Jack Daw "Pine needles and needles in general include toxic (at least for other plants) essential oils."

Forgot to mention that these are brown needles not green so these toxins may have been leached out.

alex
Yeo, those are dried and toxins have probably moved out of the needle. But I thought that the original question regarded fresh needles. Go for a walk to the wild and look below any pine tree (or any with needles for that matter), there's a very scarse, very typical vegetation that doesn't mind these toxins. Other than that, it's just plain soil.
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