Subject: Removing pine needles from beds

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 21:34:11 -0500

I'm a fairly new perennial gardener.  I read in several places that branches
from your Christmas tree make good mulch to cover plants.  Obediently, my
husband cut the branches and we laid them over the plants.
Today I gathered them up, and of course, there are pine needles all ove
the place!! will they hurt the soil or plants?  Do I need to rake them up
somehow?  Is it OK to leav them?
Help - Thanks,
shelley