A big wind flooded my property with dried pine needles and as I started to clean them up this morning I got to thinking.
I am on a shared well that has been down for 5 months and therefore I am buying water by the truckload. It costs me $250 for only 2000 gallons and therefore I do not have much water for irritating my trees.
Normally I would put the pine needles all around my trees for a mulch, but due to living in a very high fire danger area in California, this obviously is not wise.
So my question is; what is wise to use for a mulch? I have about 25 trees on a half of an acre and all of them are too dry right now. I had NO water until last week (five months I was not able to irrigate but twice with the neighbors hose).
I am happy to dig down around the tree areas and fill with a mulch, but what can I use that is not a fire hazard and does not require even more water than the trees need?
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