RE: RE: oat straw
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: RE: oat straw
  • From: &* H* <c*@wi.rr.com>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:20:11 -0500
Hi Betty,
Thanks for your answers.  I have a opportunity to use the Oat Straw and it
will be free.  I want to use it between plants and then over plants in the
winter.  My Iris gardens a lot of plowed snow with salt blown off the road
by plows.

Char


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Betty
Ann Gunther
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 5:39 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] RE: oat straw

I have used straw.   I am not sure whether it came from oats or wheat or 
what, but I would think the effect would be the same. It works to keep 
the soil moist and to build up fertility.  It decays quickly.   We use 
newspaper underneath woodchips in our Santa Fe Iris Society public iris
Garden to keep weeds down.  Incidently, they feed the soil and keep it
healthier and they last longer than does oat straw.  Both methods need to be
replaced from time to time.
Betty Gunther

On 8/14/2012 11:52 AM, Char Holte wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone used oat straw for mulch?
> Char
>
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