Baled Pine Straw

Save your money and purchase elsewhere. What a ripoff! The bales are loosely packed and filled with sticks.

I bought 50 bails, none had any rot, and it looks great (so good my neighbour is about to order the same thing) It’s long needles, and so much more affordable than mulch (and looks more natural too) Yes, there are some twigs and pine cones mixed in, but I can’t say they bother me at all.

These bails are half the size, and weigh next to nothing. If you are having a price increase, this is a low, underhanded way to do it. Bails are 24" long.

This load was very clean, dark rich color.

first about my latest purchase from home Depot. the pine straw was brown with no red. very little dirt. about 20 percent of the bails had some rot. delivery was very fast from my store and the driver was very efficient even though he was using a pallet jack and a lift gate, and going up my steep driveway. I was very happy with that......so now my suggestion. I have bought from home Depot and the blue team and even local landscapers. everybody has bad supply every once in a while. but I believe it is the responsibility of the retailer to sell their stock on anything that is natural by various grades. if I new I was getting rot and would pay less for the value, I would do that. but if I want top quality, I will also pay more for that. personally, I would always choose to pay more if I was getting consistent top quality. I am attaching a photo, left side is this latest delivery. you will notice it is more brown than on the right side. that delivery was a beautiful red/gold.

I don't know why there are so many bad reviews about this pine straw. Maybe I got lucky and got a good batch or maybe everyone is comparing it to some premium priced stuff? I don't know but my experience with it was just fine. I ordered 40 bales and there were very little sticks and out of the 40, around only 3 or so had some straw that was discolored. The way I feel is it's pine straw for $4/bale, you have to expect there to be some imperfections. If you're unsure about getting this, don't let the negative reviews sway you. Just go for it, you'll be glad you did!

I have been in property management for decades and have bought tons of pine straw for properties I take care of. These new rolls of pine straw that Home Depot now carries are smaller than the bales I used to buy from the same place, yet they are advertised as more than twice the size of the old rectangle size bails, I am very disappointed and I will be looking elsewhere.

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I buy a LOT of stuff from Home Depot, but I was very disappointed in this pine straw. I had it delivered to my home by Home Depot on two pallets; the delivery process was fine, and the delivery person was friendly and efficient. It's the product itself that was disappointing. The bales of pine straw contained a lot of weeds with lots of seeds that are now coming up in the area where I spread the pine straw (note: that area has landscape fabric over the dirt and has been in place for 3+ years; no weed problems prior to putting down this pine straw). Also, the bales contained good sized pine tree limbs (1-2" in diameter, along with big clods of dirt, a LOT of leaves and other debris). It was the dirtiest, worst-quality pine straw I have ever bought from anywhere (and I have bought a lot over the last 40 years).

Never in my 20+ years of spreading pine straw, have I ever seen/or have been poked with so many thorns. Maybe it’s a tactic to keep the pine straw together, but after spreading 20+ bales, wearing gloves, have removed to many thorns to count. OUCH! Be careful!