I bought this Timberline pine bark mulch to use with peat moss, perlite, and maybe some miracle Gro potting mix to create a blueberry potting mix. This was the only pine bark mulch they had.
It looks pretty chunky though. Is it too big to use in a potting mix, and if so, what should I use instead if I can’t get finer pine bark mulch?
looks good to me
Why not just use it as actual mulch and not in the soil?
Buy some soil acidifier stuff to lower the Ph, and then use the pine bark as mulch
I read that it creates aeration in the potting mix. I bought soil acidifier as well as fertilizer for acid loving plants.
If I don’t use pine bark mulch in the mix, should it just be peat and perlite or should I substitute something else for the pine bark?
It looks ok to me as well for in ground plants.
I have been using mini pine nugget (that’s not so mini) and it matches (in terms of chunkiness) what I have received as nice potted nursery plants. Last fall, I had a brain lapse and bought a lot of that timberline mulch instead of nugget and used it to up pot 5 blueberries amongst other things. Too early to tell how it does compared with the nugget but I expect to to break down whereas the nugget doesn’t, I think. I plant on switching them out to nugget in the fall.
So I shouldn’t use the Timberline mulch because it will break down? What should I use if I can’t get pine nuggets? I was thinking potting mix, peat moss, and perlite might do, but maybe the pine bark mulch/nuggets are necessary for aeration and drainage?
I don’t know. I’m new to this.
