Re: Deep mulch materials

**"* <l*@savage99.com>**

For years we have successfully used both hay and straw for  deep mulch.  We
just purchased some straw that was not sprayed. The farmer said he sold the
sprayed stuff to the highway department.  We make our own hay.
Deep mulch is especially effective with potatoes; also tomatoes, squash and
cabbage.  Smaller row crops get lost.
I have often heard that hay is not a good mulch because of weed seeds.  We
have found that it tend to "mulch itself", thus cancelling out the weed
seeds.
liz

----- Original Message -----
From: "margaret lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
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Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:18 PM
Subject: [GWL] Deep mulch materials

> A question for those of you who use deep mulch materials: what do you
> use for mulch?  Organic materials available here in SW Idaho are
> limited to mint sludge (most sprayed with persistent herbicide
> Stinger, I think), alfalfa, fallen leaves and wheat or grass
> straw.  Either of the latter two may have been sprayed with
> persistent broadleaf herbicides containing Picloram, Clopyralid or
> Aminopyralid, so most are leery of using those products.  There are
> abundant pine needles in the mountains, but nobody bundles and sells
> it as pine straw.  Margaret Lauterbach
>
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