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Pine Straw FAQs
What you need to know!
1. Pine Needles and Pine Straw are the same thing. It is commonly called Pine Straw in the South.
2. If you want your beds and yard areas to look good year round you should put out Pine Straw twice per year in Fall and Spring (Except with Hall's Designer Pine Straw). Most Pine Straw will begin to break down after about six months. Long needle usually breaks down a little slower due to it's size.
3. Hall's Designer Pine Straw will last about 12 months. This drastically cuts down on labor and straw costs. About 50%. After a few months our designer straw will begin to lose some of it's sheen but the hue will last and still look great up to a year in warm climates. Longer in cold climates. After 6 months Halls Designer Pine Straw will still look much better than either Slash or Long Needle Pine Straw. Remember, we also sell Long Needle Pine Straw and Slash Pine Straw. You can stir the Designer Straw which brings the colored straw to top and looks great!
4. In general, Pine Straw should be laid 3 inches thick on land that has never been laid before. Subsequent re-strawing can then be thinner. Especially with Hall's Designer Pine Straw.
5. Hall's Designer Pine Straw only needs to be about 2 inches or less on first application. This is because the Short Needle Loblolly Pine Straw used to make our Designer Pine Straw lays much thicker and tighter than other straws. From the first application it cuts your costs for ground cover considerably. Since subsequent applications (about once a year) you only need about 1 inch. Thus, you continue to save on labor and Pine Straw expenses.
6. We use only Loblolly Short Pine Needles for our desiner Pine straw process. Since Loblolly does not have as much wax, the dying process bonds better than with Long Needle or Slash.
7. Loblolly needles lay much tighter and even than others making a much more attractive and uniform bed.
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