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DIY & Home Improvement

TygrBright

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3. Straw is wonderful for gardens. Hay, not so much.

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 06:15 PM

Sep 2014

Straw is the byproduct of threshing wheat, in which the seeds are removed, leaving the stalks. Straw is useful for many purposes-- as a winter mulch, slow composting, insulation and bedding for animal enclosures, etc.

Hay is dried grasses, and often includes the seed heads. It's used as feed.

When you put hay on the ground, those seed heads do what nature intended.

So the difference matters.

helpfully,
Bright

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Hay! [View all] hermetic Sep 2014 OP

Straw liberal N proud Sep 2014 #1

Thanks hermetic Sep 2014 #2

They used to fill barns with it to keep it dry liberal N proud Sep 2014 #6

Straw is wonderful for gardens. Hay, not so much. TygrBright Sep 2014 #3

Around here, we use marsh grass as mulch for newly planted grass seed Thor_MN Sep 2014 #4

Lucky you! alfie Sep 2014 #5

Thank you, all! hermetic Sep 2014 #7

The rural group is found under People :-) MuseRider Sep 2014 #8

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