[Homestead] bean straw
Leslie
cayadopi at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 22 12:43:04 EST 2009
Finally found straw locally....
Only the straw here is "bean straw", not the kind of straw I used to get in S. Florida (which I think came from oats). It never occurred to me that straw could come from beans... LOL. This area is a big producer of pinto beans so the straw comes from pinto beans.
Is anyone here making their own straw?
I was looking for straw for the potatos. Picking up tires today and with luck will have the potato seeds in soon.
In trying to figure out how not to have to spend much money on growing food, I was happy to find that I can use leftover bean stalks for straw.... :-)
Also Milo grows great here and is draught tolerant and can also be used for straw easily.
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