By Amy Grant It’s baseball season again and he who shall remain nameless is blowing through bags of not only peanuts but pistachios as well. This got me to thinking about using nut hulls as mulch. Can you use nut shells as mulch? And is it okay to toss nuts in compost piles? Read on to learn more. Can You Use Nut Shells as Mulch? The simple answer is yes, but with a few caveats. Let’s get peanuts out of the way first. Okay, you all know that peanuts are not nuts, right? They are legumes. Nonetheless, most of us think of them as nuts. So can you use peanut shells in nut shell garden mulch? It depends on who you ask. One camp says, sure, go right ahead, and another says that peanut shells may carry fungal diseases and nematodes that can potentially afflict your plants. What is sure, is that
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