[Homesteadingfamily] Re: What are you planting?

 

--- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, j268hensley@... wrote:
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> I have put straw on my garden once and never again! It started growing oat straw! Was NOT happy! Judi

Since I have rabbits the oats that grow in my garden are a great source of fresh green rabbit food. I don't actually put the straw directly on the garden. I feed the hay to the rabbits and then rake up their manure and what ever they spill that the geese & ducks don't clean up under the rabbit cages. This I apply directly to garden beds and around the fruit trees in the orchard. Since I've been doing this for the last 2 years the orchard has a beautiful carpet of oat grass [when we have rain, which has been in short supply this year] that the geese keep nicely mowed. In my garden beds I just wait until the oat grass is about 6"-8" long and take a basket and harvest, shake off any dirt, and viola! Instant Bunny Food :)

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