RE: RE: oat straw
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: RE: oat straw
  • From: &* H* <c*@wi.rr.com>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:17:38 -0500
Thanks Connie.  This has already been harvested for the Oat and there are no
seed heads.  The price is right too.
Char

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Connie
Eggen
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:09 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] RE: oat straw

 I have had the experience of using oat straw and it happened to have a lot
of seedb heads still in it. My DH picked it up for me and paid no attention
& I did not assess it, we just spread it on some public beds. We had lots of
grassy stuff (oats) coming up in the beds.  Just make sure it has no seed
heads still in it. Otherwise it is just a good as wheat straw.


CS Eggen
Zone 5
Nebraska


-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Ann Gunther <bettyg@cybermesa.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Aug 19, 2012 10:47 pm
Subject: Re: [iris] RE: oat straw


I think the straw will help almost anything.  Betty G.

On 8/19/2012 9:20 PM, Char Holte wrote:
> 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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