Following up to Janet Baraclough :

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from Tim C. contains these words:

Following up to "La Puce" :

Grass cuttings, straw, hay and even newspapers will do!

Can I pile up grass-cuttings, etc. around normally planted spuds in the
ground?

Fresh grass cuttings can get very hot and stacks dumped by
contractors onto our greasy concrete drive-apron, have quite a bleaching
efect on the dirty old oil-stained concrete. So, I wouldn't let fresh
grass cuttings make contact with soft growing stems or leaves. I use
them as a weed suppressing mulch between rows (avoiding stems) until the
haulms grow big enough to hide all the soil .


Okey dokey. I guess some straw etc around the sensitive parts, or some cut
nettles etc would do the trick?
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Tim C.