I've got a dozen +, > 40" dbh white pines in the front yard.
Every fall, the needles are always a mess to clean up, but they get used as mulch on my blueberries.
Every few years, they put out a bumper crop of pine cones. This was one of those years.
I put up 4 55-gal bags of cones before I did the needle clean up this year. Some of the best fire starter I've ever used. Really cuts down on my need for kindling to get fires started or make the embers jump to life.
Anybody else harvest a stash of pine cones?
Every fall, the needles are always a mess to clean up, but they get used as mulch on my blueberries.
Every few years, they put out a bumper crop of pine cones. This was one of those years.
I put up 4 55-gal bags of cones before I did the needle clean up this year. Some of the best fire starter I've ever used. Really cuts down on my need for kindling to get fires started or make the embers jump to life.
Anybody else harvest a stash of pine cones?