Straw bale garden mulch experiment
We squeezed 18 bales of straw in
the truck today for around 100 bucks.
I predict this will save us 2 to 3 hours of weeding per bale.
I predict this will save us 2 to 3 hours of weeding per bale.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I used rye bales to build a compost pile this summer and they got really wet (lousy location) and sprouted their own mushrooms. The chickens really liked them. BSF took over the pile and I discovered the pupae had migrated into the straw. A nice two-fer deal there! The whole deal is now feeding and mulching our baby orchard.
No 'shrooms in the garden straw.
April -- Wow! That's amazing! If I could recreate that on a regular basis, it would be thoroughly worth buying straw.
Zimmy --- We did have some grain seeds sprout from the straw we got last year, but not too much. I always read about people who find spoiled hay for free or cheap and am very jealous...