mulching with hay

 I've mulched with straw before with good results, but never tried hay.
My sense has been that it will bog down too much during a wet winter.

Does anyone use hay, and if so how thick do you put it on?

The story's a bit daft, because of the drought we have the right in
France to give away our hay (normally illegal unless you pay the fee to
be a farmer, and taxes too!) this year, so I'll end up with a few tonnes
if I want them.

Thanks

-E

 g'day emery,

we use spoilt hay when we can get it, usually 6" to *" or so thick
teased out a bit, over here we ahve never had any issues with rain
causing any issues generally hay breaks down rather quickly commonly
around 6 months.



On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:32:51 +0200, Emery Davis

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 says...

  I have done in the past, using large amounts of spoiled hay bales from a
neighbour. I laid it on a foot thick because I had to use it up somehow
:-)  The only difference from straw is that hay has a lot more seeds, so
you NEED to mulch it on really thick to cover bare earth and stop them
germinating.

  At the last place I also used to cut my acre wildflower meadow and pile
all the "hay" under the trees; maybe a metre deep. That attracted worms so
he chickens spent weeks rootling about in it and by the end of winter it
had completely disappeared.

  Janet