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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

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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People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, 
and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. 
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder 
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ~ George 
Orwell



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We don't have much straw locally. There's a lot of corn, soy, and oats, but
the plants are all chopped and put back on the fields. I use lawn clippings
for mulch (I still have more lawn than I want...slowly converting it to
garden). I've got cows, so I have a lot of wasted hay...I compost the pooped
on hay and use the cleaner hay for mulch.

I'm trying to reduce my costs, too. I still buy some seeds; I save some, but
alway like trying new varieties. I buy lime, rock phospate, and some other
minerals once in a while, but most of the fertility comes from compost and
legume cover crops (I'm going to try harvesting seed from the cover crops so
I don't have to buy more). This year I need some fencing to keep the
critters out of the tomatoes (I have the  posts). And I'm buying a  scythe;
I'm sick of fighting with the gas-powered weed whacker.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Homestead] bean straw


> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --------
>
> “All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way.
> People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own
> wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are
> unwelcome. Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful
> and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
> wind.” ~ George Orwell
>
>
>
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