Tag Archives: Pine Needles

Types of Organic Mulch for Your Garden: A Guide to Types of Organic Mulches

Organic mulch is a great way to keep your garden hassle free and give it what it needs at the same time. Using organic mulch in your garden is not a hard or outlandish thing to do, even gardeners who do not practice organic gardening use different types of organic mulch in their gardens. Here […]

Ways to Get Rid of and Use Pine Needles

Pine needles are beneficial to the soil, especially when combined with acid-loving shrubs and plants, but sometimes pine needles become overwhelming. They can literally bury grass and foliage, but there are a number of easy and valuable ways to get rid of and use them to benefit gardens, flowerbeds, and landscaping. Consider the following ways […]

Ponderosa Pine State Tree of Montana

The state tree of Montana is the Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa). This tree is also known as Pacific ponderosa pine, western yellow pine, yellow pine, pino real pine, pinabete pine, bull pine, black Jack pine, western red pine, western pitch pine, big pine, heavy pine, Sierra brownbark pine, western longleaf, and ponderosa white pine. At […]