Originally Posted by lannerman

Hi Laura, you may get differing opinions here but let me add my thoughts !!
Yes, I would use this hay around your trees but not to add nutrients, infact, to the contary, initially it will actually deplete the soil of some of its nutrients in order to break the hay down but personally, I think there are other benefits. Firstly, it will keep the weeds down around your trees and also tend to stop the soil drying out as much. The downside is that as the grass now has set seed, eventually you will get alot of new grass growing in that area ? but that maybe better than weeds ? The bulk of the material will quickly rot down, especially if we get rain !! The speed of this will depend on how your going to cut it as its waist high ??, the more its chopped up, the quicker it will compost ?
Lannerman.