stephgouv wrote:Didier, I am often asked the same question and I cannot answer it:
Isn't there a risk that hay seeds on the TOP (in the last 5 cm of the 20 cm) will germinate?
I want to give a convincing and fair answer to skeptics.
As Doris said, yes, it can happen, when you put hay and you have a wet period without it drying out ... Personally, I've never had a problem. But two or three people pointed it out to me ...
So what can I say?
a) Do not try to convince those who are not ready to put a little mess in their garden: no, you cannot have a perfectly clean garden as if it were weeded with Roundup ... The big risk in trying to to convince is to run up against people who do not want to change the paradigm. Who just want an "green" varnish on their vegetable garden. But above all, it must be clean, aligned, nickel ... In short, as before!
b) If they want to try anyway: if there is grass growing, it will always be less than what is in a meadow; However, my vegetable garden was 80% of the meadow, never worked, never roundup, never passed to the tiller ... So if I manage to control a meadow, some herbs that grow back, it's cat pee next door! If it stresses out, a pharmacist should be seen. And get prescribed an anxiolytic!
c) Invite them to reason "cohabitation" with weeds which are not bad, which for a long time, build and nourish the life of the grounds ... And read the chapter of the book which concerns the cultures "under living cover" (in the second book, there are the photos!).