r/composting • u/TheDanishThede • 1d ago
Question Hey, hay?
I have a crap ton of homemade hay from our huge lawn, or the parts I let run wild this summer. Cut it down at the start of august with a scythe and let it dry out for a week in the sun (no rain) and have been storing it in the carport in jute sacks since then.
It's mainly regular lawn grass grown to about knee length with a few herbs and flowers like flax, marjoram, bird's-foot trefoil and fennel which grows wild in that area.
It was going to go to a friend who kept rabbits, but a fox got to them and - yeah. He doesn't really have a use for it now.
A good therapist for his kids, though...
So.. would there be a use for this in my cold compost, as winter mulch or, dunno... Mix it into the leaf mold pile?
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u/katzenjammer08 20h ago
Does it have seeds? In that case I would try to heat it up because those will germinate at some point. If it is in an open pile on the ground you can just turn it to kill the grass that sprouts but those roots can be a bit of a bother so if there are seeds and you can kill them with heat that’s the way to go if you ask me.