{"id":2997,"date":"2017-05-12T19:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodpellets.com\/blog\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2017-06-09T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:59:54","slug":"wood-pellets-used-as-organic-mulch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/wood-pellets-used-as-organic-mulch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Pellets Used as Organic Mulch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many experienced growers claim that using a sawdust mulch around blueberry plants helps them thrive. This is because these plants grow best in an acidic soil with a lot of moisture &#8211; which is what the sawdust provides. However, clean sawdust has apparently been harder to come by for small outfits and DIYers. This is where softwood pellets come into play!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check out the below photos provided by Demers Garden Center &#8211; showing how to use wood pellets as organic mulch. Each blueberry plant is carefully surrounded by the contents of a standard 40lb bag of Cleanfire Pacific softwood pellets, then sprinkled with water. Because wood pellets are made of tightly-compacted, kiln-dried wood fiber &#8211; they immediately soak up any moisture and expand into fluffy, moist sawdust. (<a title=\"How to Use Wood Pellets as Horse Bedding\" href=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/how-to-use-wood-pellets-as-horse-bedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Which makes for great animal bedding too!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We will be sure to update this blog with new pictures as the growing season progresses!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2998 aligncenter\" alt=\"Wood Pellets as Organic Mulch for Blueberry Patch\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2999 aligncenter\" alt=\"Wood Pellets as Organic Mulch for Blueberry Patch\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3000 aligncenter\" alt=\"Wood Pellets as Organic Mulch for Blueberry Patch\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3001 aligncenter\" alt=\"Wood Pellets as Organic Mulch for Blueberry Patch\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Have you used sawdust or pellets as an organic mulch before? Let us know how it turned out!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many experienced growers claim that using a sawdust mulch around blueberry plants helps them thrive. This is because these plants grow best in an acidic soil with a lot of moisture &#8211; which is what the sawdust provides. However, clean sawdust has apparently been harder to come by for small outfits and DIYers. 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