Avoid this MISTAKE when using Hay as Mulch | Ruth Stout Method
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- Using hay around small plants? Worried about smothering young plants with hay? Keep the weeds out by doing this, when your plants are small.
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Summed up: Add a thick enough layer of hay so the weeds witll not come through (or fewer). Seeds from the hay can germinate, but it is more likely that it is is shoots from the underground. When setting up a new garden (transforming lawn etc into a garden) you are applying cardboard anyway to smother the plants in the underground. If weeds come up nearby small seedlings (so you cannot just add more hay) you need to shove the mulch aside, give a few stripes of carton around the base of the seedling directly on the soil see 4:50. Then shove the covering hay back in place add some more hay and cautiously step on it to compress it in height. All leaves must be above the hay layer so the young plant will not be smothered.
8:15 And the plants at the fence recovered 5 days after covering them with (more) hay. they got greener so they can do (more) photosynthesis now.Likely the cooler ground temperatures help them.
Thank you for this! I can read a lot faster than she can talk :)
Do not use hay It is filled full of seeds what she is using his straw she does not know what she’s talking about
@@PHIL5251 You can use hay, Ruth Stout used hay exclusively in her garden for decades with great success. She had to address the weed seed issue many times because people were worried about weeds sprouting in their garden, essentially you just make the hay mulch deep enough that the weed seeds don't touch the soil, simple enough. (Just the same as any other mulch, it's essentially a germination barrier; that's why you have to pull back the mulch to plant.) Hay is also richer in nitrogen than straw so it'll break down more quickly and contribute more nutrients to your soil.
@@PHIL5251 I used grass clippings from mowing last year. Worked great!
Sure is a good video. That's a good looking garden. Your plants do look good. Have a great day
This is very helpful
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Will be using soon the large hay source we have net next to our garden.
I have such difficulty with weeds so I’ll be making hay mulching adjustments
Thanks
I really enjoy your stuff. I have a garden (very small) near Lake Jackson and a much bigger one in NW Louisiana. Your giving me a lot of good advice.
Thank you!
Soooo glad to find a Ruth Stout Texas gardner!
I'm in central Texas.
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The Hill Country?
Yes. 👍❤️
I'm in the Hill Country, too. Starting our garden now and very glad to find a Texas gardener CZcamsr that uses and shares about the Ruth Stout method
Oh heck yeah - thanks so much!! Subscriber from NW Fl.
Great tips!
Cool info, thanks.
I used hay to cover hill rows this week, to protect from this heat and came across this method ,, I'm totally sold,,
Yay! So glad I found your channel, new subscriber here. I just got finished watching the documentary about Ruth Stout and I'm so curious if anyone's tried gardening her way and to learn more about it! I can't wait to binge watch your videos! Thanks! 🤗
Welcome! Ruth was such a neat lady. I would have loved to have known her.
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thank you so much for the welcome! 🤗💜 Yes! I would have loved to know her as well, just to sit and have a conversation with her would be amazing!
Love the shirt! Great video
Love that shirt girl!!
I found that hay layer was a good place for mice to hide and they chewed most of the potatoes.
Love your T shirt!!
Thank you.
I have that tee. Thanks for this video.
You can dry grass clippings before the seeds come. Then you can use it safely in your gardens. Scyth cut grsss even better. You get a free upper body workout as well
Wondering if pests, particularly European fire ants will make nests under the hay. Loved the video - thanks for sharing!
"Not today devil" - Nice t-shirt😂
Thank you for this! I post Ruth Stout updates on my chan too and like to stress that it isn't a "set it and forget it" method but that overall it's so much less work.
Been a Ruth Stout fan since the 1970s, and she would not have used thin layers like that.
I absolutely love your shirt
Thank you!
The school near us has a cardboard recycling dumpster. Sunday I went and collected cardboard to improve the area around my pumpkins because they were outgrowing their area. I still haven't found a source for untainted hay. Love your tips.
this is hay season. Check market place on Facebook.
You don't want hay, hay has a lot of seeds in there. Use wheat straw way better for your garden
Hi, thanks for the videos, I really want to try this method in my Hill Country garden. Is coastal hay ok to use? Is tgere any difference between using hay and straw? Thanks!!
I've used hay and it is a good mulch but I had seeds sprouting in my garden so I started using pine straw and worked much better for me also by end of gardening (fall ) it seemed to have rotted quicker and turned into a rich dark soil sooner than hay also during the straw gathering there were many night crawlers (worms) to be harvested with the straw to be added to the garden a double bonus I would say
Wouldn’t straw solve your seed problem? I’m really trying to understand this method
i actually have hay sprouting. but it doesnt have big roots. when i pull it the seed is there
My face 😱 after I used hay as mulch 🙈 😅 I should’ve watched the video first.
if your bale sits and gets rained on, it will most likely start growing. Mine always do. the starts are easy to pull out as you sprinkle the straw on bed.
Hi Krystal, good idea, I will use some cardboard underneath the hay too.
I have one question: when laying cardboard around the plant, you didn't leave any room from the plant for water/rain to get inside, is it because the cardboard pieces used are small and narrow, water/rain get in through the hay can reach the plant easily? Thanks
Just found your channel looking for what people are calling the Ruth Stout method. I am in west Texas so probably at least 5 hours away from your lush green living lol. However, some promoting this call it straw which is to me different than hay. Is straw and hay used interchangeably depending on which part of the country the host is from?
In Florida it works down 1 1/2 inches a month. Not only do I have to put down hay but newspaper, cardboard and anything else I can find. Once I tried those round things and they were full of bugs.
1 1/2" per month? I didn't know that, thank you. I've never gotten a round bale full of bugs.
I know that oats will sprout from horse manure, if the horse cant fully chew up the grain.
I used cardboard one year and found the pieces were too big. They acted more like roof shingles diverting water away from the plant. Krystal's little pieces were perfect. If you need to cover a large area, use lots of little pieces. Big pieces work for walkways, of course.
Use a pitch fork or shovel and make drainage holes. That makes the biggest difference.
DONT USE NEWSPAPER!!! The ink is a known carcinogen. Also, only use brown cardboard. Nothing with ink or a glossy coating.
@@casestyer1166 I thought about this for a minute. I would guess the tiny amount of bad chemicals that would go into the ground, then the plant, then the fruit would be a tiny fraction of what we are exposed to on a daily basis from driving, artificial colors, artificial flavors, preservatives, trace amounts of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides - the list goes on. But I try to use the cleaner cardboard if its a concern.
Thank you ❤
@@casestyer1166 Thank you ❤
Hay is scarce and expensive in Vermont where we had a drought last summer. Mulch hay is $5 per bale, IF you can find it. Canada had a drought too, and that is our go-to place when hay harvest is sparse her in Vermont.
Oh wow! It was like here a few years back. I think they brought in hay from Canada, the drought was so bad.
You may have to use woood chips, those should be abundant in VT (with stressed trees that need to be cut down, pine beetle etc). Just do not work them in, keep them as cover and shove them aside. Advantage: in VT it is cooler so they do not break down fast (in Floridia they are gone after 1 year).
Could you use straw? No seeds
Hi Krystal! I am so enjoying your videos. I'm curious to the type of hay you use? This year I'm mulching with cedar mulch hoping to help keep plant munching insects away. Have you ever tried it? BTW, I grow in raised beds if that makes any difference.
Hi & thank you so much. I've used cedar wood shavings from my husband's wood shop. I didn't notice if it kept the bugs away or not.
I've used straw for my first 2 years with a weed free garden. Not this spring!! I bought straw again , put it down and within 5 days my gardens looked as though I planted 500 pounds of grass seed!!!! I believe its wheat straw. The wheat ends were sprouting by the millions!! I got so frustrated I ripped it all out! Now I don't know what to use.
How thick did you put it down?
@@KrystalsTexasGarden 4-5 ". This bale is LOADED with the tops with seeds. Never seen a bale like this one!!
Hi 😃 I think I'm just down the road from you. can I go look at your garden and get some ideas?
Please help, I need advice. I have covered the whole garden with hay, the soil is great, I don't have to water it but the snails eat everything!!! It's unbelievable. All my peppers for this season are gone. But I can't scatter blue seeds because they all disappear in the hay and the snails still come. They are now going to my greenhouse too, it all looks so sad. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Do you have snakes under the hay?
I love that T-shirt!! Do u sell them if not plz send me a link or maybe u can sell them? Let me know!!
Do you use hay or straw?
I normally add the straw before I transplant or sow seeds into my raised beds. When sowing seeds, should I wait for the seedlings to get up to a certain height? Or should I put straw down and just clear open a small area for each seed I'm sowing?
Just clear a small area.
Hello again, Krystal : ) Thank you for helping me last week with my chiggar problem. I'm planning to get out in the garden tomorrow to "add more hay!" and will try the essential oil repellent you suggested. I have another question for you. We are in north central Texas and as I said last week, this is my first year gardening in Texas. I can't tell from your picture, but do you have "black gumbo" soil like we do? I'm not sure if that's what it is called everywhere, but that's what the locals here call it. It's pretty rich looking when it's wet or damp, but with even one hot day, the surface completely dries out and large, wide cracks form. When I dig down beneath that surface layer, I hit limestone. I'm pretty sure my plants' roots must be hitting that limestone and then they stop growing and wilt. Do you have any suggestions for me? Thanks!
How far down do you dig before you hit limestone. Yes, my native soil is black gumbo. Although it's changed quite a bit over thevyears.
@@KrystalsTexasGarden It's good to know that it can be changed! I start hitting limestone about 9 inches down.
Why hay and not straw?
Does the hay and mulching in general provide pest cover? I’ve seen different opinions, on mulching or not.
No, it's for heat protection & moisture retention.
The hay my also contain Grazon or Picloram!!! Look it up!
Nice idea but I’m in south Dallas I’m afraid the hay will catch on fire in the summer
I haven't had a issue with fire.
What you are calling yucky under that hay at 2:23 I call wonderful! Lol
Hay and straw are two different things. Hey is for FEED it contains the seed and grasses. Straw is used for bedding and contains none of that .
I use hay, because in my area straw is typically treated with herbicides. If you layer your hay 8" or thicker the seeds have a hard time germinating.
Hello, I am in south Texas. I have started using hay for my garden also but am scared of snakes hiding under the hay. Did you find snake under your hay mulch? What do you do to deter snakes from hiding under the hay?
I understand that is also my concern!
Stomping your feet usually will make them flee. They don't like the vibrations. Also if you have a dog with you that should alert you to one.
Hay is the best only thing worry about weed pesticides on the hay
I use straw. It works.
Love the shirt great video also
Is there any veggie plant that I should not put hay around?
Nope. Just make sure you don't smother out any young plants.
Is it better to use straw, rather than hay?
I use hay. Typically straw in my area is treated with herbicides.
Are you using hay or straw? Hay has a lot of seeds in it
What’s the difference between using hey vs straw? Thank you 🙏
Nothing really. You have to watch both of them for being treated with herbicides. In my area, they spray herbicides on straw before harvesting. So just make sure you know your source.
Krystal's Texas Garden much appreciated...I didn’t want to get the one that sprouts. Too bad about the spraying...seems like that’s almost everywhere.
Hay is dried grasses, including the seeds. If you separate out/thresh and keep the seeds aside, what remains of the stems is called straw. Ideally straw doesn’t have seeds which can germinate and grow in unwanted areas of your garden. Practically, some seeds remain.
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Can you substitute straw for hay?
I'll have a video out tomorrow discussing this topic.
I thought the chickens was a part of the beat, they really add something to it.
People planting "Brexit gardens" in the UK really need to see this and other videos about Ruth Stout.
Thank you. Are more & more people gardening there in the UK?
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I am not from the UK. I just have been watching events over there and have noticed some talk of it.
They are in a situation where a garden could be extremely useful. The USA will be trending into recovery over the next few months as people get the vaccine. In the UK, they have a double wammy of covid and brexit tanking the economy, One big issue they will have is food imports. Planting potatoes, beets, carrots, winter squash etc can give them a bit extra healthy food. The ones I suggested are because they keep for a while.
Can I use hay around my rhubarb?
Yes, absolutely.
The HAY has lots of carbon , that's why your eggplant is weak. To balance the carbon , you need nitrate . Add nitrate , I think your garden will boom and bloom .
When they say hay, don’t they really mean straw?
HAY ya'll :D
I used costal bermuda grass hay - sheet composted it, in my garden several years ago, and it sprouted costal bermuda grass, which, once established, is impossible to eradicate, shy of using Roundup, which I won't do, so I abandoned that site. It is much safer to use OLD, really old, rotten hay rolls of Bahia grass hay that has a low likelihood of containing seed heads in it, plus, you can pull Bahia grass out fairly easy, compared to costal bermuda grass. Moral of the story, don't ever used costal hay in your garden. P.s. I didn't have costal hay, previously in my garden, so it had to have come from the hay I put down in it; what a mistake!! I live in north central Florida. Here, costal bermuda hay is considered the best "horse quality" hay, and bahia is lower quality and is considered, "cow hay".
Unfortunately, the hay now has Grazon poisoning if you can’t find it organic. Rye might be better.
I buy first cut from fields that have never been treated.
The hay will sprout seedlings isnt really true. Everywhere we feed our cows and goats a bale of hay that spot will not have any grass grow there till we take a tractor over and remove it, some will even burn the leftovers piles. We try to unroll the bale which seems to help but not a big difference. As far as chemical free that would be very difficult to find. The chemicals remain in the soil for years so your "first cut" is still laced with chemicals from the last several seasons. Even your organic fields have it if anybody nearby use them .
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Hay has seeds.. good straw has no seeds. Hay is not straw.
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Use straw.
Dont use hay use straw.hay will always sprout.straw is what your supposed to use
Not according to Ruth Stout. I've been using hay for a while now. It just needs to be added thick.
Hey Nancy check outJim Kovaleski and what he does in Maine. Nothing but grass (makes hay with Scythe) and acres of it. The nitrogen content in grass geeds the soil, keeps the soil biology so active. Hope you can look him up and it works. 👍🌱
Your eggplants look very unhealthy , have aged, although they are young . Something went wrong during their early growth stages (frost , high heat, or lack of water). The soil looks healthy though .
Your manmade devil 😈 put those weeds there ! .... lol
Lol hay ? You mean. Straw . Hay is what animals eat and filled full of seeds you don’t use this in the garden, straw is a byproduct from grain Spoken like a city kid
Lol, nope I meant what I said... hay. I follow the Ruth Stout Method, and she used hay. Look her up. I'll have a video coming out tomorrow about the subject. Make sure you subscribe & hit the bell so your notified when I post. Thank you for watching, commenting, and supporting my channel.
I lasted 45 seconds..... Very annoying.
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