Today our local council delivered a load of hay, fresh from Watermead County Park. Six bales went straight onto my plot, stacked up nicely next to the compost bins and covered with an off cut of polytunnel plastic, ready to go under my strawberry runners when they are planted. I intend to plant them on ridges through good membrane and use the hay to keep the fruit off the floor like the local pick your own farms do, although to be honest they use straw rather than hay which is generally used as a winter animal feed. This time of year the council tends to drop off leaves as well and also bark chippings, all of which are very welcome and put to a good use.
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Piglet, if it is proper hay it will be chock full of seeds. Grass, cowslip, thistle.......
Cheers podster for the advice, it will now only go around my strawbs that are planted through membrane so hopefully (he says)wont be an issue and at the end of the season it will be burnt rather than composted.
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