Hardwood mulch, such as mulch from oak trees, is great to use around fruit.

Jun 19, Arborist wood chips are the best type of wood chips and contain a mixture of small branches and leaves chipped into small pieces between 1/2 inch and 2 inches.

Wood chip mulch can last years before it completely breaks down and a thick layer inches deep is great for preventing weeds and grass to grow bushlopping.barted Reading Time: 7 mins. Jun 07, how to mulch your fruit tree.

Remove weeds and grass around your fruit tree up until the drip line of the tree as that is where the feeder roots are that need water and nutrition. Lay out your mulch in a circle, or donut shape around your fruit tree. Keep the mulch Author: Susan Poizner. Jun 27, Yes, mulching will help the ground retain moisture making it available to the trees and not just to evaporation and it will help hold down weeds.

DO NOT ALLOW MULCH TO TOUCH THE TREE TRUNK. Mulch a"donut" around each tree with the mulch inches away from your trunks. Piling mulch against the trunks leads to disease and decline. Apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries. Tree fruit should be mulched to the drip line with 6 to 8 inches of straw or hay in May. Mulch should be reapplied periodically and pulled away from trees at the end of August or early September.

Any mulch should always rest on top of the soil, never mixed in with a rototiller.

This will allow trees to File Size: 26KB. I mulched around my trees in the spring when there is new green plant matter everywhere and rodents will be less drawn to my trees. Come winter time I pull t.