Tired of constantly replacing pine straw? Columbia businessman says he has a solution
COLUMBIA, SC Four years ago, a friend doing landscape work at Chip Prezioso’s Rosewood Drive business filled plant beds with artificial pine straw. Today, the pine straw at The South Carolina Shop looks good as new, he said. “That’s the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Prezioso said. Continuing to marvel at the pine straw’s durability, […]
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Barefoot Resort switches flammable pine straw lining streets to Textraw
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – This spring will mark 5 years since a fire destroyed 78 homes in North Myrtle Beach. Now Barefoot Resort is taking steps to help make sure their neighborhoods don’t suffer that kind of damage again. It’s called Textraw. It’s made from 100 percent recycled plastic. The Barefoot Resort community […]
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Benefits of Textraw
Moisture Retention Textraw has the benefit of retaining moisture in the soil because they block evaporation and prevent the soil from overheating. Moisture from rain or irrigation can make its way through the mulched area to soak into the soil beneath. Textraw itself isn’t porous enough to hold any moisture on its own and it […]
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WEEEDS
You’re familiar with the “Circle of Life”? Hakuna Matata? The idea is that weeds grow up in your flower beds, and you spray them with herbicides. The ones you spray wither up, and are replaced by a new generation of weeds, which calls for another dose of herbicides. Then, just when almost all the weed seeds […]
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Sunbelt Expo
In 2005, the Sunbelt Expo in nearby Moultrie, GA put out 50 rolls of Textraw around the Expo administration building to replace natural longleaf pinestraw. They had been using 60 bales of straw costing $6 per bale installed. It’s now nine years later, and they have not had to spend $3,240 in that time. This […]
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