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Mulches
"Staycalm" wrote in message
u... I am putting in my lovely veggie bed this weekend. What are the pros and cons of using hay, pea straw and sugar cane mulches? I'm interested in personal experience. Cheers Liz my favourite so far has been pea straw. i didn't like sugar cane very much (pointy & dusty) & atm i've got straw (wheat?) from the farm shop, i don't like it much because it's so big & stiff. i like the way pea straw is finer & more flexible. in future i'm just going to make sure the straw has been through the chicken yard first to break it up a bit & get the seeds out etc. i bought lucerne seed to grow mulch etc & see how that goes (but have i planted it yet? no...) kylie |
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Mulches
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message ... "meeee" wrote in message "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message "Terryc" wrote in message wrote: We use peastraw. It goes into the rabbit house for a week which I'm told is great for roses. Roses also love horse poop. I'd like to try bunny poo though. We'd be keeping rabbits as meat, but swmbo continues to thwart this plan by giving them names :-))) Never name your meals. Not true....my parents used to have goats, and we always named the 'meat' goats....BarbQ, Matty (they still have the rug) etc.....worked well. Well I was thinking more along the lines of names like 'Polly' or 'Clarabelle' etc but names like Sirloin or those you mentioned do work OK. Mind you, I also think it helps to grow up in an environment where it's well known that the cute babies all grow up to end up on a plate. Uh huh....there was clear distintion between 'eating' goats and 'miling' goats; we made pets out of the milkers, I think it also helped that the meat goats were usually males, so tended to be a bit smellier and more obnoxious, and not so 'pretty' either. |
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