You would think that barely straw would be alot cheaper tha it is,
considering its just a byproduct of rasing barley much as is straw a
byproduct from wheat etc.......I seen a website with prices on a 40
pound bale of barley that was ungodly in price.........I can buy a 70
pound bale of Well fertilized alflafa hay for about $10, which is
rasied specifically for feed use, and is not a by product like barley
straw is. Heck even wheat straw here is less than $2.50 a
bale..........but a 1 pound pad of barely is over $10.00 in stores.

Barley straw extract is even higher..Guess its all because its
associated with ponds and Koi.......

On 7 Apr 2005 15:50:54 -0700, "kathy" wrote:

===(Still have never been able to find myself putting
===rotting straw in my pond- but also don't have algae
===problems... so who knows. Anyway this is a small town
===in jj and k30's state, WA.)
===
===~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
===Wednesday, April 06, 2005
===
===Barley straw sops up algae in Chinook reservoir
===
===By NANCY BUTTERFIELD
===Correspondent
===
===About a year ago, Wainamo started placing 8- to 10-foot "wattles"
===of the straw around the permitter of the reservoir in the shallows and
===suspended 10 to 12 onion sacks full of straw in four rows across the
===water. In a very short while, "It was the first time in years I could
===see the bottom of the pond," Wainamo said
===Why does the straw clarify the water so well?
===Wainamo has consulted experts from Purdue University and a college in
===California. "It takes a while to work," he said. "The straw has
===to decompose first. I think it releases hydrogen peroxide" which
===kills the algae. He said the treatment works for six or seven months.
===
===
===http://ihmp.net/@/ex
===
===or
===http://www.chinookobserver.info/main...ticleID=985 4


==============================================
Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!