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RE: [GWL]: A New Rant/salt marsh hay

Ruth Stout used salt marsh hay.  I gather this is largely grasses cut in 
genuine hay stage from salt marshes.  That is, it is hay, not straw.  It 
probably didn't contain much in the way of weed seeds, and any it 
contained would be of plants that thrive in salt marshes, not gardens.  
It was probably great stuff for those who had access to it.  Ruth Stout 
wrote best-selling books as well as articles in Organic Gardening that 
are reprinted regularly to this day, and much writing, alas, is simply 
uncritical rewording of other people's writing.  So people who have 
never and will never see a bale of salt marsh hay still read about it 
and even write about it regularly.  

Jemsharp@aol.com wrote:
> Joe -- the recommendation of salt marsh hay may come from English garden 
> 
> books, but I found it in MANY general garden books written from an East 
> coast 
> bent.
> 
> Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
> Indianapolis Zone 5
> 
> 
> 



Carol Deppe
Author of BREED YOUR OWN VEGETABLE VARIETIES:  THE GARDENER'S AND 
FARMER'S GUIDE TO PLANT BREEDING AND SEED SAVING (See table of contents, 
excerpts, & reviews at http://www.chelseagreen.com.)  

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