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Gardening Tips & Tricks : How to Grow Grass Around Pine Trees



Growing grass around pine trees requires the diligent practice of laying down compost or potting soil and reseeding with shade-loving grass seed every spring and fall. Keep a lush grassy area underneath pine trees with plant tips from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening.

Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

7 Comments

  3. TheMrRSHARMA

    I suppose it's same for us in England? I have a gigantic Pine tree almost 50ft in my back garden. Under it nothing grows. I will certainly try your idea. Thank you

  4. Dan Milano

    i'd feel better about following this advice if the pines behind her had ANY GRASS AROUND THEM AT ALL

  5. S B

    Thumbs down to this video – terrible advice all around. Limbing up an evergreen tree's lower branches is a permanent horrible idea – it destroys the overall beauty of the tree and removes crucial elements to the tree's overall health and ability to withstand wind etc. Cleaning the dropped needles and weeds in the spring, keeping up with the under canopy maintenance throughout the summer and defining the "grow zone" makes much more sense than fighting half dead sparse turf – fescue or not. If you need to have turf under your tree then a deciduous would make more sense.

  6. John Geers

    PNW here as well. She is obviously aware that there is no real grass directly under the trees near the fence. Like with my home, there is a semi-defined line where I just do not attempt to grow the grass. For me is is about 2-3 ft from the trunks. Seems the farm cats, squirrels, and roots right there just are better left to their own. Either way, I have been doing what she is saying she does for this last year. I had not viewed this so I am glad to think someone is doing the same with some luck!. I overseed, have added potting soil, water like crazy( I may regret that), and have been adding a powder of eggshells I make from all the eggs I eat. Today I am adding some lime. Later this year, early October, I will be adding a little more soil, seed, and lime/shell/fertilizer in hopes to have a well established root base for next year. Good luck all!

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