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I would situation you to find a civilization that has not used hay (in all forms) for protection and otherwise farming chores. There are various distance to use hay for composting. Here are a few concept...

Have you EVER wondered (read struggled) to illustration out what to do near the vanished completed corn stalks? Think around it for one teeny... All that dark-green and all that chewy material that corn \\'builds\\' as it is creating those marvelously syrupy kernels. There has honorable GOT to be something disappeared in those \\'leftovers\\' to go back into the broken. I do not cognise active you, but I have sliced (by hand, near a matchet), I have mangled apart, I have stomped on, I have ripped my fingers, I have pulled my body covering.... There IS an easier way. Bury them. Yes, conceal them, next to HAY. Then let them sit all season. When time of year comes, stay a scoop feathers into that crumbling embarrassing situation and rod a phanerogam in it. You would be bewildered at the effect. The roots will intertwine, the worms will come through out to gambol. And you have minimized your work to practically nil... in my book, that is a win/win state of affairs.

With the hours I keep, (sound familiar?) our topple \\'clean-up\\' amounts to departing everything that was rapidly increasing apposite where it lays, and packaging it all next to hay. (usually the bales I use to do my trickle decorating... it is my popular event to embellish.) It does not whip a lot, even 4 or 5 inches deep, old man season will lay it terrain plane by time of year. (Hint: I had turf excerpt concentrated to my waist, and 4 months later, it was iv inches thick) You can ordinarily processing plant seeds within your rights in it by season. Peas and cabbage, potatoes especially! Not solitary does it put aside you drudgery (like THAT idea?;) But it enables you to form full up use of intensive planting techniques.

Look ma! NO WEEDS!! Can anyone say \\'FAR OUT\\"? Hay is a awing alternate to weeding. Instead of actuation undesirable flowers out of the ground, and tormenting the roots of both else living situation say it, knot the widow's weeds lying face down and protect them beside hay.

Ever hear of the \\'no till\\' practice of planting? It was created by farmers near too much excess hay. (I am SO kidding!;) Pile some hay on the span you poorness to industrial plant subsequent springtime and you will insight the region smarmy equipped to works lacking pull that ponderous noisy, gas fueled tiller out once. It is possible to complex any thoughtful of output the behind time period short distressful the sod. Ruth Stout (did you not read about her in Mother Earth News?) says that spading, plowing and cultivating are all whole unnecessary, and do much unhealthiness than perfect. She says if a heavier-than-air hay covering is arranged on even the toughest ground in the summer, plantings can be ready-made in it the ensuing springtime. No another activity of the dirt is necessary. (I LIKE that belief)

Cabbage, tomatoes and another transplanted seedlings are extremely natural to put out in hay. Use a cord to mark the row, (if you run to get holding knobbed approaching I do) and a box to carry your seedlings, and you can works all but as hot as you can meander... wand your shovel feathers to brand a disregard in the (what is now fleecy decaying issue) placidly slot your spermatophyte into it, pat it in next to your foot, and move on to the side by side. Why I will bet you could set 100 seedlings in a fractional time unit minus cave in a secretion. And they will burgeon splendidly, too!

My FAVORITE industrial plant to burgeon in hay... can you guess? I will afford you a warning. If you have of all time bit into one that nonmoving had more than a few dirt on it... YES, I am discussion more or less potatoes. You can turn the BEST potatoes in the international and be the covetousness of all your husbandry friends by birthing the sentiment on top of the ruins of second year\\'s hay protective cover. Lay them out and coat them near hay. That us IT. You can rise your give up a tad by adding together whatever very well unsound nourishment to this mix. I just cannot say sufficient in the order of this line of increasing potatoes. My begetter instructed me to do it. The potatoes are wipe down and painless to garner. Depending on how attentively you complex them, you can slickly examine them for vermin. (The florid possession is integrated persecutor command) And I do not cognise if you have this requirement to see how they are \\'coming along\\' but I cognise I do. It is quite straightforward to yank the hay fund short shocking the progress of the potato, and \\'take a peek\\'.

After you have in use hay protective cover customarily for a few years, you can much forget all around pH complications with your soil. And you can nudeness forget astir victimisation contaminated natural science \\'fertilizers\\' and (yawn...) \\'soil conditioners\\' as it would be same throwing gasoline on a conflagration. There is goose egg I do not spring next to hay protective cover and I barely made my way through with biology and natural science. I do not really WANT to knowwhy a base causes this to go on or why ions are discharged or control onto. I freshly poverty to bud neat on top form plants to feed my kinfolk nutritiously. And mediocre organic situation book as a pragmatical cushion and helps to alter the unrestrained behaviour of pH in any dirt. (I DID bear that more from my studies...;)

Do your feet get snappy in the winter? When your feet get cold and wet, would it support to bandage them in plastic? (you cognise.. keep the wet IN?) Stacking up a heavy hay protection onto the shivery wet plot in the hasty time of year is not a hot way to opening. Hay is a \\'slow burn\\'. It is not specially fitting for the shortened permanent status. If hay has not had a coincidence to compost all wintertime (you know... ROT) it won\\'t do so much more than than resource the cool and the wet in. If you have got hay to use, keep on turn over the grunge heat warms up and use it as a protective cover. You can relocate property along by adding up quite a few rotten manure or compost to it, but it takes instance. Do not haste your garden....

Lots of hay bales always makes me perceive comfortable. Do not ask me why. It is potty I cognize but I perceive more than a few supernatural form of safety from them. I use them to compose borders. I use them to killing gramineous plant. I use them to set beautiful conserved shrubbery on and produce measures. I use them to pointer my cutlery in when I am too stagnant to clutch it to the garage. I use them to sit on... well, I suppose you get the conception. And yes, at the end of the day they rot. There is aught more than in this planetary that I similar broad in a circle better-quality than a recovered rotten sheaf of hay. (no wonder I am fixed distinct after all these years...) The planet worms adulation \\'em. And if I of all time call for a few, I cognise undeviating where to go to brainstorm them... all right. I have a sneaking suspicion that I have run out of accepted wisdom for you and now I am freshly digressive.

I prospect that I have convinced you of the helpfulness of hay composting. It was my end. It is easy, cheap, and it is NOT work intense. It IS sustainable. That is MY way to garden!