Sprouting grain made easy..
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Sprouting grain made easy..
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Sprouting grain made easy..
Straw is a stem from grain baled after threshing ( accept in Pakenham, where apparently they don't bother with that detail)windwalkingwolf wrote:QR_BBPOST. But anyway, I was wondering, what is the official distinction between 'hay' and 'straw'? I always thought straw was simply old infertile hay, and/or threshed stalks from grain crops. Meaning it shouldn't sprout, or at least not much, especially if old.
Hay is blend of grasses, mainly Timothy Clover and Alfa Alfa if you are lucky
Grass and burdock if your supplies cuts ditches instead of hay fields.
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hay is feed made up various grass, timothy hay, clover and alfalfa. straw is bedding made up of leftover crops, usually wheat but I have seen bean straw and it was very coarse.
at our old place the last time I did hay the field was like 4' tall and full of seeds. I collected 4 bags of seeds off the wagons well unloading. I used it to seed the runs and bare spots. it grows a beautiful grass while kept short. and guess what... I put those 4 bags of seed in the run here a couple months ago and after all the recent rain its finally sprouting!!! woohoooo!
so whether or not hay will sprout all comes down to the quality and the cut. any of those bales I made would definitely grow a beautiful grass no problem.
at our old place the last time I did hay the field was like 4' tall and full of seeds. I collected 4 bags of seeds off the wagons well unloading. I used it to seed the runs and bare spots. it grows a beautiful grass while kept short. and guess what... I put those 4 bags of seed in the run here a couple months ago and after all the recent rain its finally sprouting!!! woohoooo!
so whether or not hay will sprout all comes down to the quality and the cut. any of those bales I made would definitely grow a beautiful grass no problem.
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Sprouting grain made easy..
Hay is what critters eat & straw is whatwindwalkingwolf wrote:QR_BBPOST About 3 years ago we bought a bunch of small square bales of hay for the pigs. When we were unloading, it was obvious that it had been sitting somewhere wet for a little too long as every bale had black and/or white mold on the bottom, so we stacked it half out in the elements to make straw bale gardens the following year and bought better stuff for feed. The moldy bales sagged and melted and grew mushrooms appropriately to rotting hay, so we built our bale gardens and dutifully watered and planted. And damned if they didn't sprout various grasses all over the place. and I had to weed my bale gardens. But anyway, I was wondering, what is the official distinction between 'hay' and 'straw'? I always thought straw was simply old infertile hay, and/or threshed stalks from grain crops. Meaning it shouldn't sprout, or at least not much, especially if old.
from same critter drops on in pen for bedding/ fertilizer . Lol
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Sprouting grain made easy..
Straw is the stalks left over after combining oats, barley wheat, rye. It is almost weed free as the crop usually is sprayed or managed to keep the weeds out.
Hay is just whatever is growing in the hayfield baled up and can be almost anything and typically the grasses have already gone to seed when cut and baled, thus the sprouting of a variety of things if it gets wet!
If straw sprouts it usually indicates there are still some grain in it.
So for mulching etc, straw is best so you don't get a lot of weeds.
Hay is just whatever is growing in the hayfield baled up and can be almost anything and typically the grasses have already gone to seed when cut and baled, thus the sprouting of a variety of things if it gets wet!
If straw sprouts it usually indicates there are still some grain in it.
So for mulching etc, straw is best so you don't get a lot of weeds.
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