Fir Tree droppings & Blueberries

[northepaul]

Hi again...I seem to have loads of questions today

I have two lovely blueberries to pot, and on the information leaflet with them, it suggest adding pine needles (acidic) to the compost mix or as mulch. Following on along this train of throught, how about fir tree droppings? Our neighbour's fir tree drops loads of bits (leaf-like strings , along with tiny cones) into our garden, could I just use these instead, do you think?

Thanks in advance

[Reb Williams]

I would have thought so, as long as you shred it a bit?


Reb
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[Two_Sheds]

I have this mental picture of a fir tree doing a poo (droppings) which I just can't shift now

[FionaH]

I have this mental picture of a fir tree doing a poo (droppings) which I just can't shift now

Thanks that's stuck in my head now

[northepaul]

(Shrugs) LOL sorry I dont know the correct name for them

[frias]

Blueberries like ericaceous compost. I've never heard of adding pine needles. I always thought nothing much grew under a pine tree but not sure if that's because of the needles or if 'cos thay are usually so big that everything under is in the shade.

[timmyalex]

Pine needles and asparagus

Interesting thread for me this one. 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 layer of pine needles.

The comment 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.?

[northepaul]

I used the fir tree droppings () as a mulch after I filtered all the bloomin sicamore seeds out! Then I covered all of it with pine bark chippings.

They seem to be thriving - so far!