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RE: I FOUND STRAW! LOTS AND LOTS OF STRAW! - GREAT FOR YOUR GARDEN!
This is the last straw! And this one... and this one... haha.
Hey Zach I know hay is used to feed animals, same as straw, but is hay also used to layer gardens? Which would be better hay or straw? Have you had a chance to compare?
Jumping in here.. I hope you don’t mind. We’ve done both hay and straw and we find that hay, if not old and rotting, tends to spill a lot of seeds into the garden and we end up growing hay. If you want to use hay... if you can, unroll a bale and let the chickens scratch i it for a long time before covering the garden with it and they’ll eat the seeds for you. Straw... the only issue we have is making sure it hasn’t been sprayed with chemicals before putting it on the garden.
You can put down hay but it needs to be really thick so when the seed sprouts it either can't root or break through what is above it. @shalomacres does this and has had pretty good results.