I see Hort. Weekly is advertising Strulch a straw mulch, Seems expensive
at 6pounds a bag though it does give 150 litres of the stuff per bag.
Wondered if anyone else has used it?
With peat getting scarcer to buy would this condition the soil enough or
just form a barrier on top to stop weeds?


Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
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On Oct 23, 7:07*pm, Janet Tweedy wrote:
I see Hort. Weekly is advertising Strulch a straw mulch, Seems expensive
at 6pounds a bag though it does give 150 litres of the stuff per bag.
Wondered if anyone else has used it?
With peat getting scarcer to buy would this condition the soil enough or
just form a barrier on top to stop weeds?

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Have you looked at their web site?
http://www.strulch.co.uk/
http://www.strulch.co.uk/buy_mulch/
and if you are realy flushed with cash
http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/H...ookie%5Ftest=1

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Dave Hill writes
Have you looked at their web site?


Yes saw the site David, wondered if anyone else had used the mulch.

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
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You are using peat as a mulch?

What advantage does it have over, say, garden compost?

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You are using peat as a mulch?

What advantage does it have over, say, garden compost?



No Kay, I have been using (on special plants), peat based compost. i
really don't like the non peat based ones and they are really expensive
as a feeding mulch.

I know several people who use bark which is good but doesn't degrade so
although that sounds good it means you can't put compost on top unless
to scrape back the bark, and it does seem to need topping up as it gets
blown around and the birds pull it out of the beds.
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Janet Tweedy
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On Oct 23, 7:07*pm, Janet Tweedy wrote:
I see Hort. Weekly is advertising Strulch a straw mulch, Seems expensive
at 6pounds a bag though it does give 150 litres of the stuff per bag.
Wondered if anyone else has used it?
With peat getting scarcer to buy would this condition the soil enough or
just form a barrier on top to stop weeds?

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk


I shred my hedge clippings and use those.

Ah, it was your reference to a straw mulch that made me assume you were wanting to mulch with straw not with peat.

Still not sure what you're using it for. Are you putting it around special plants as a soil conditioner, or using it to plant into? Or are you using a peat based compost rather than pure peat? I'd use garden compost for all of those, so still have the question of what do you see as the advantages of what you're doing?

In article , kay
writes
Still not sure what you're using it for. Are you putting it around

special plants as a soil conditioner, or using it to plant into? Or are

you using a peat based compost rather than pure peat? I'd use garden

compost for all of those, so still have the question of what do you see

as the advantages of what you're doing?


The straw mulch would work out marginally cheaper i think and some
plants just need a bit of a mulch round them and possibly selective soil
conditioning. i don't want to cover up the ground elder as i need to see
it to kill it, nor do i want to make the soil more friable for it! So I
generally mulch after the soil is damp, those plants that I want to help
rather than whole beds.
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
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