Besides the fact Pine Straw mulch is a sustainable, renewable resource, it’s so wonderful and lightweight to work with pine needle and looks very attractive. Young seedlings can grow through pine needle, water can filter down through it, the soil can breathe and yet pine straw still holds in moisture. It lasts much longer than other similar materials and pine needle won’t be adrift away with the first drenching rain.

In fall mulching with pine straw has an important function since temperatures in the late fall to wintertime months can change radically. The ground heaves as it freezes and thaws, forcing the root systems of many delicate plants up from the soil and exposing them to the elements. Just about all plants are much healthier when they have a bed of pine needle mulch spread over their roots.