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Q.What Is Ideal To Have Under A Very Large, Spreading Canopy Of A Mature Messy Mesquite Tree For Ease Of Cleaning Its Pods?

Zone 8b Pahrump, NV | Anonymous added on August 25, 2023 | Answered

Yearly my mesquite sheds pods and leaves that take me more than a month to clean up. I rake some as there is only hard-packed desert dirt under its canopy currently. What would be a more beneficial substance/ground cover to incorporate around this tree?

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GKH_Susan
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Answered on August 26, 2023

I think what you have makes it easier to clean up. Rocks or mulch would be worse. A ground cover might hide the pods if you wanted to leave them. You would have to add some better soil on top of the hard dirt for that.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/gardening-by-zone/zone-8/zone-8-groundcover-plants.htm

Some people wrote in to a community site and said they used a leaf blower to blow the leaves and pods to a pile to pick up. Another said his leaf blower included a vacuum setting and he is able to vacuum up the pods and leaves. Another person said a yard rake with long, flexible metal tines worked well.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/mesquite/growing-mesquite-trees.htm

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/mesquite/mesquite-tree-pruning.htm

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