Subject: Re: Just a thought about Organic Gardening...will it work?
From: naomid@tiac.net (Naomi Diesendruck)
Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc.
Date: 14 Aug 1997 22:20:35 GMT
Message-ID: <MOD$970814.8259@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
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>Naomi Diesendruck wrote:
>
>>
>> Um, I hope you mean straw.....if I remember correctly, hay is good food
>> for horses but contains tons of weed seeds - straw has no weeds. You're
>> going to have a really bountiful weed crop if you use hay....(hoping
>> someone will correct me if I have that backwards.)
>> Both hay and straw contain weeds. Before buying or using either one,
>inspect them carefully to make sure they are clean, or you'll have a very
>long and painfull growing season. :)

Thanks, Troy...maybe that was part of my problem, believing that the
straw had no weed seeds....but I could swear that my Rodale's Organic
Vegetable Gardening book recommends one over the other as having
fewer weeds...I'll have to check.

-Naomi