Do you know what this is a pic of?
Satan’s Seed!
Remember I told you I bought a bunch of straw to use as mulch throughout my new garden space, between rows, unused areas, etc.? The shit was FULL of seeds! ACK! It was A-W-F-U-L. When I first realized what was happening I thought I’d be able to pull it all up, but that was a completely unrealistic idea – the shit was everywhere - and thick!
Call me a novice or just numb, but I thought ALL straw was seedless! Isn’t that what differentiates it from hay? I’d even spread this stuff around other parts of the yard, over grass seed. Needless to say the grass seed didn’t take and instead I’ve got areas of lawn that grows twice as fast as everywhere else. Waste of time and money! Look what Satan’s Straw Seed became ….
What started out as beautiful new garden space quickly became an ugly fenced in field. Seedlings were surrounded, struggling for light and water against what was supposed to help them. BLARGH :-S !
Could it get any worse?
Yes.
Much.
- Ranger Man
BTW: Do you know what’s friggin’ GROSS? Slugs! It was raining one day and I figured it was a good time to go slay garden slugs. I killed A LOT, sliced them with the hoe. I came back later to kill more and I found a startling discovery – THEY EAT EACH OTHER!
So friggin’ gross, hanging out next to the herb bed chowing down on each other. You can even see their slime in the pics. I killed the cannibal slugs after taking the pictures. Blech ….. but I guess if the shit went down and good grub was hard to come by ….. I’d eat slugs, too.
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So what now? Nuke it? Torch it? Cover it with a black felt blanket and choke the life out of everything? Let it grow and stake a goat for weed control? Getting rid of weeds is a constant thing. I hear Peat Moss is a great additive, in addition to organic compost.
As for the slugs….I didn’t know they ate each other. Interesting.
Yea, I always think that if a person is advertising a bale as straw it should be seed free, but I had a similar problem this year with decidedly NOT seed free straw. Maybe it’s not actually possible to get it seed free and it’s just a cruel joke that gets perpetuated every year….
I had about 50% of the straw left over when I was done mulching this spring. I left the bale out in the rain and sun and watched it sprout and then die. Hopefully this fall when I lay it down any seed that was in it has sprouted and rotted and will trouble me no more. We shall see though.
if times are that rough, worms are a lot easier to swallow..
like janny said, set the bales out until theyre sprouted,,it works
almost looks like wheat. got grain mill?
maybe you could rent some sheep.
by the way, hurricane Earl is headed your general direction. expect him around saturday.
*shakes fist at Hurricane Earl*
Straw should be seed free, but with mechanical harvesting of grain slot of the seed stays behind. What grew looks like either barley or wheat. I’m going for barley. It grows much faster. Either one has it’s purposes in a prepping situation. Both could be fed to livestock, and each has their unique culinary characteristics.
About slugs, domestic ducks eat them. Might want to consider some. Fairly good source of meat and eggs.