Hi folks. I garden in a New York City park and there are three massive London Plane trees lined up in a row. They are old and interesting trees, but every July they shed their bark. That's their habit. It's messy, but they were there before I was. Every July, I pick up the bark--huge swaths of card-paper textured stuff. Most of it I just dump into a trash can, but sometimes I just crumple it up in my hands (gloves help) and toss the one inch pieces into my mulch. I figure it is a nice supplement to the mulch, but I wonder if I'm helping or hurting my 50-60 rose bushes with this additive.
My question is...Is London Plane bark, crumpled up small, good, bad, or neutral mixed into garden mulch?
David
West Side of Manhattan
