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Harvesting Reed Canary Grass for Straw w/ a Scythe 1
Don't put your scythes away for the season just yet! Now is a great time of year to mow tall dry grasses for use as animal bedding, garden mulch, or dry matter for compost piles.
Reed Canary grass is my favorite dry grass. It's easy to mow and yields a tremendous volume of straw. At this time of year, the seeds have all fallen off, and since it's a dominant monoculture, there aren't many other plants mixed in, so it makes a great seed-free mulch. When harvested in dry weather, it requires no further drying, and you can put it directly in a haystack, or pile it high in your barn or chicken coop for winter bedding.
The big hollow stems are great for keeping air in a compost pile. So after you use it for bedding, the manure and straw mix is very compostable. It doesn't form a dense anaerobic mass (like hay or leaves do), that takes forever to break down.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
The One Scythe Revolution
So, "The One Scythe Revolution" it is! It's a little long, but I agree, it suits my message the best.
I did a search for green website hosts and was drawn to using iPage.com. They are fantastic! I highly recommend them. They're green, very affordable, and they have a website template/design program that even I can figure out. If you need a website host, check them out, and tell them I sent you.
So check out my new website . It's still under construction, but it has quite a bit of info on it already, and lots of videos. It also comes with its own blog, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one. Check out my latest blog posting on mowing Reed Canary Grass for straw. Give it some traffic, and make some comments!
