Subject: Re: Just a thought about Organic Gardening...will it work?
From: sandrap@flora.ottawa.on.ca (Sandra P. Hoffman)
Organization: Synapse Internet
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:48:31 GMT
Message-ID: <MOD$970815.27832@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
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On Fri, 15 Aug 97 01:54:43, naomid@tiac.net (Naomi Diesendruck) wrote:
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>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.
In general straw will contain less seeds because the seed heads of the
grain have been harvested. Hay is harvested with the seed heads
intact. Both will have seeds, and both will have some contamination
with weed seeds. However, in my experience, even with hay, if you make
the mulch deep enough weeds are few and easily pulled.
sph
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