They work well with strawberries and blueberries, both of which require
acidic soil. I don't know where you are, but if you can raise blueberries,
I would. Strawberries will grow just about anywhere, as long as you buy
plants for your area.

Dwayne

"Ray Drouillard" wrote in message
...
We are planting a garden on the land that we just bought. The soil is a
really sandy loam where we are putting the garden (it's a whole lot more
sandy than loam on most of the rest of the property).

We need some heavy mulch to make this work.

We have five or six acres of planted red pine forest.

If we rake up a bunch of needles and use them to mulch the garden, will
that cause any problems?



Ray