Yep needs to be "clean" straw. No seeds. Our community garden got a seedy
delivery one year and we all had to do fast spring germination and weeding.
We covered the beds with plastic in order to sprout the weed seeds...then
tilled them under.

"Mark" wrote in message
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"Prof.Zooks" wrote in message
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moya wrote:

I'm interested in a low maintainence vegi garden

Then mulch it with about 10 inches of straw!


I mulched my garlic with seedy straw, and now it looks like I'm trying
to raise a bed of fescue instead.

Mark