Do crushed pecan shells make good mulch?
Absolutely. Pecan shells make great mulch. In many areas of the country, they’re readily available and reasonably priced. What’s more, they’re attractive and an excellent slug deterrent. Slugs don’t like to crawl across coarse, jagged surfaces; when they encounter a bed mulched with pecan shells, they tend to head elsewhere. Q: Do all manure-based fertilizers smell bad? A: Try as they may, manufacturers haven’t figured out a way to make manure-based fertilizers completely odor-free, although some don’t smell as bad as others do. To find out which ones are the most odiferous, I recruited a volunteer with an exceptionally keen sense of smell–my son, Dalton. Dalton smelled each sample and rated them on a scale of 1 (least stinky) to 10 (most stinky). The first sample Dalton smelled was bat guano, which he gave a 2 on the odor scale. Next, was a product made from processed sewage, which he rated a 5. Finally, he took a whiff of a chicken manure fertilizer, which to his nose topped the sca
