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Gardening

sinkingfeeling

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5. Well, in the farm states, straw is normally used for Halloween decorations.

Reply to onethatcares (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 30, 2019, 07:02 PM

Dec 2019

Straw is more yellow in color while hay tends to be grayish green. Straw is the stalks from grains and is usually used for bedding. Hay is mown grasses and is sun dried and baled as feed for animals. Because hay is 'food', it normally costs several times more than straw.
At $6 a bale, it might well be hay. Most people also use straw in compost.

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anyone doing any gardening? [View all] onethatcares Dec 2019 OP

Hay or straw? Hay normally would have weed seeds. sinkingfeeling Dec 2019 #1

I think it's hay onethatcares Dec 2019 #2

Might be marsh hay Lefta Dissenter Dec 2019 #3

Well, in the farm states, straw is normally used for Halloween decorations. sinkingfeeling Dec 2019 #5

Are the stems in the bales big and yellowish? csziggy Dec 2019 #7

no seed heads to speak of onethatcares Dec 2019 #8

If you have not already discovered her, Google "Ruth Stout". Her books and articles are way Atticus Dec 2019 #4

getting ready to do garden planning. Next year will be all new for me! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2019 #6

cardboard questions NJCher Jan 2020 #9

i used a layer of onethatcares Jan 2020 #10

wood, composting, and paths NJCher Jan 2020 #11

check out onethatcares Jan 2020 #12

I bought a new old house about 7 years ago, and the backyard was the same htuttle Mar 2020 #13