While pine straw may seem like an ideal mulch material ... their longevity can create challenges when it's time to refresh your garden beds or prepare the soil for new plantings.

What is mulch? It is simply material you use to cover the surface of the soil in your garden beds. Generally people use ...

Crews disproportionately made of young, Mexican men bale pine straw by hand. They're not always fairly compensated.

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...

Workers begin by removing all debris, including pinecones, to expose a clean bed of pine straw. Once the pine straw is pristine, they rake it into loose piles. The mounds dotting this field are ...

But applying pine straw to residential flower beds means stripping it away from the forest floor. The rhizosphere feels the loss. In an older Florida, pine needles created a thick cushion over ...