Dried palm leaf mulch

[NorCalWill]

What are your thoughts on using dried palm leaves from healthy palms as mulch around other palms?

Are there benefits to doing this or could it potentially be detrimental?

[Little Tex]

I dont see how this would help , they definitly wont retain moisture very well, and they dont decompose fast

 

[Looking Glass]

I’ve wondered about this myself, and I do it to some degree, chopping up leaflets and sticks of fronds and just throwing it in with the regular mulch.  The huge chunks I still put into green pick-up though.   

Seems like a waste to just throw away good organics,  just to go out and buy more mulch at the same time.   

[ZPalms]

My chamaerops I prune the dead fronds and I clip the petitole arms into little chunks and throw them back into the pot sometimes

[Silas_Sancona]

I'm sure it would be fantastic as it breaks down, releasing any left over nutrients back into the soil. ( like it does in nature )

At a nursery i'd worked for in FL.  dried out fronds from a neighbor's Palmettos and Royals would accumulate in a corner of the property near a shared fence. When i went to clean up some of it ( ..to add space for more nursery stock ) the soil below decomposing fronds above was very rich and full of critters. I took a bucket full of it home to use there, lol.   Why waste a good thing?

[RyManUtah]

Why not? I use them to cover compost, instead of straw etc - with good effects.