i'll be able to tell you after this weekend. I bought 25 bales of straw to cover my yard that I've had trouble growing grass on. used to be farm land, grew wheat beautifully! I've harrowed and seeded, but every time it seems to rain and washout or it gets too dry or the wind blows or or or.
so i'll drag it with a tine harrow, seed it and cover it this weekend (about an acre). seeded it last fall, and some of that is coming up now, but it is spotty - tried the make rows-and-seed-and-cover-with-the-rake trick, but that didn't work. I know I should get a soil sample tested, and might still do that. I know I need black dirt to mix in with the clay soil, but at the going rate to cart topsoil out to the country, that isn't going to work. hence, the straw...
so i'll drag it with a tine harrow, seed it and cover it this weekend (about an acre). seeded it last fall, and some of that is coming up now, but it is spotty - tried the make rows-and-seed-and-cover-with-the-rake trick, but that didn't work. I know I should get a soil sample tested, and might still do that. I know I need black dirt to mix in with the clay soil, but at the going rate to cart topsoil out to the country, that isn't going to work. hence, the straw...