Muffin wrote
is it supposed to STINK????
Yup, decaying matter emits foul odors,
especially if water movement and O2 aren't
available in suffient quantities.
Barley straw is an expensive dead plant ;-)
I've never used it but here is some stuff researched by another rec.ponder on
this web page. It is a couple years old, put together about the time of the
barley straw boom.
http://hometown.aol.com/rosiedawg/my...ollection.html
k30a