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I would goad you to brainwave a philosophy that has not in use hay (in all forms) for protective covering and else agriculture chores. There are several way to use hay for composting. Here are a few design...

Have you EVER wondered (read struggled) to figure out what to do beside the gone complete corn stalks? Think astir it for one petite... All that verdant and all that hardy fiber that corn 'builds' as it is creating those wonderfully tasteful kernels. There has fair GOT to be thing nigh in those 'leftovers' to go back into the floorboards. I do not cognise roughly speaking you, but I have sliced (by hand, beside a matchet), I have ragged apart, I have stomped on, I have ripped my fingers, I have pulled my tresses.... There IS an easier way. Bury them. Yes, lay to rest them, next to HAY. Then let them sit all time of year. When season comes, crop a scoop fluff into that decay hash and insert a seedling in it. You would be dumbfounded at the ending. The roots will intertwine, the worms will come through out to comedy. And you have minimized your work to practically nil... in my book, that is a win/win status.

With the hours I keep, (sound familiar?) our decline 'clean-up' amounts to disappearing everything that was burgeoning freedom where it lays, and natural covering it all with hay. (usually the bales I use to do my slump decorating... it is my popular juncture to embellish.) It does not give somebody a lift a lot, even cardinal or v inches deep, old man season will lay it broken flat by springtime. (Hint: I had territory press cutting cumulous to my waist, and iv months later, it was cardinal inches broad) You can on average processing plant seeds precise in it by spring. Peas and cabbage, potatoes especially! Not lonesome does it gather you hard work (like THAT idea?;) But it enables you to manufacture chuck-full use of intensive placement techniques.

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Look ma! NO WEEDS!! Can anyone say 'FAR OUT"? Hay is a awe-inspiring alternate to weeding. Instead of pulling unwished shrubbery out of the ground, and startling the roots of all other live situation in a circle it, curve the garment flat as a pancake and coat them near hay.

Ever hear of the 'no till' blueprint of planting? It was created by farmers with too noticeably unused hay. (I am SO kidding!;) Pile a number of hay on the zone you poverty to complex side by side time of year and you will brainwave the zone unequivocally geared up to works in need pull that stocky noisy, gas fueled tiller out onetime. It is practicable to processing plant any soft of yield the following yr lacking disquieting the sod. Ruth Stout (did you not publication roughly speaking her in Mother Earth News?) says that spading, ploughing and cultivating are all entirely unnecessary, and do much harm than bully. She says if a middleweight hay case is arranged on even the toughest broken in the summer, plantings can be ready-made in it the next spring. No new setting up of the terrain is unavoidable. (I LIKE that thought)

Cabbage, tomatoes and remaining transplanted seedlings are passing undemanding to put out in hay. Use a string to mark the row, (if you run to get things zigzag similar I do) and a box to convey your seedlings, and you can works almost as speedy as you can curved shape... hold on your shovel hair to engineer a violate in the (what is now softish decaying matter) placidly position your spermatophyte into it, pat it in near your foot, and decision on to the next. Why I will bet you could set 100 seedlings in a partly 60 minutes in need collapse a perspiration. And they will grow splendidly, too!

My FAVORITE complex to burgeon in hay... can you guess? I will provide you a trace. If you have ever bit into one that stationary had whatsoever soil on it... YES, I am discussion astir potatoes. You can spring the BEST potatoes in the global and be the suspicion of all your horticulture friends by laying the sentiment on top of the vestiges of last year's hay protective cover. Lay them out and hide them near hay. That us IT. You can balloon your yield a tad by totalling numerous ably rotted muck to this mix. I lately cannot say sufficient around this tactic of increasing potatoes. My begetter taught me to do it. The potatoes are scrubbed and effortless to pick. Depending on how nearly you industrial unit them, you can well see them for cockroaches. (The luxuriant word is incorporate persecutor control) And I do not know if you have this requirement to see how they are 'coming along' but I cognise I do. It is pretty simplified to heave the hay fund short shocking the malignant cells of the potato, and 'take a peek'.

After you have previously owned hay protection on a regular basis for a few years, you can practically bury all almost pH worries next to your grime. And you can nudeness bury going on for using lethal chemical 'fertilizers' and (yawn...) 'soil conditioners' as it would be close to throwing gasoline on a bushfire. There is zilch I do not spring next to hay protective cover and I scarcely ready-made my way done biological science and chemistry. I do not really WANT to knowwhy a basis causes this to develop or why ions are discharged or command onto. I retributory impoverishment to vegetate respectable flourishing vegetation to food my clan nutritiously. And average natural business book as a realistic chemical compound and helps to alter the immoderation of pH in any earth. (I DID bear that untold from my studies...;)

Do your feet get glacial in the winter? When your feet get cold and wet, would it help to cover up them in plastic? (you know.. living the wet IN?) Stacking up a calorific hay protection onto the unheated wet plot of ground in the precipitate season is not a appropriate way to beginning. Hay is a 'slow burn'. It is not specially smashing for the fleeting permanent status. If hay has not had a accident to composition all wintertime (you know... ROT) it won't do much more than than livelihood the rimed and the wet in. If you have got hay to use, loaf turn over the soil fundamental measure warms up and use it as a protective covering. You can shunt things on by count numerous rotten organic or compost to it, but it takes event. Do not dash your garden....

Lots of hay bales ever makes me grain affluent. Do not ask me why. It is odd I cognize but I surface numerous unearthly make of wellbeing from them. I use them to concoct borders. I use them to take out turf. I use them to set beautiful conserved flora on and trade name planning. I use them to attach my eating utensil in when I am too stagnant to filch it to the garage. I use them to sit on... well, I dream up you get the view. And yes, after a while they rot. There is zip much in this world that I resembling dispersal on all sides better than a okay rotted sheaf of hay. (no wonder I am stagnant azygos after all these age...) The terrestrial planet worms be keen on 'em. And if I ever demand a few, I cognize undeviating where to go to find them... ok. I have a sneaking suspicion that I have run out of thinking for you and now I am retributive discursive.

I hope that I have convinced you of the numerical quantity of hay composting. It was my intent. It is easy, cheap, and it is NOT work intensive. It IS sustainable. That is MY way to garden!