From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Ralph Mowery wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > This year I had a bunch of pine needles and put them around my tomato   
   > plants. Probalby several inches thick as I had a large pine removed and   
   > needed to do something with the needles.   
   >   
   > Can I use my tiler to grind them into the soil or should I try and rake   
   > them out.  There is a lot of grass growing around them now from when I   
   > pulled up the tomato plants and their cages so I would not be able to   
   > save them for next year.   
      
     i'd mix 'em in.  you sure don't want the grass to   
   grow all winter and be a bigger mess in the spring.   
      
     we have some annual grass that can grow and flower   
   and set seeds really quickly so any time if i don't   
   get it removed right away it's a bigger mess later.   
   i can go out in December and find grass with seeds.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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