Thanks a ton. Very useful post about mulching with hay. Tomorrow, I'm going to get myself some. I'm so frustrated by the straw. I work in raised beds and containers. It's really hard to fit it in properly, and the blades of grass are just growing through it.

But it's not really the weeds I have problem with. I mainly want to limit the times I need to water the plants. And I've already noticed, straw isn't doing the trick.
I should actually train the plants to go without water for a longer period of time. But it's like 40°Celsius in the greenhouse, and since nothing is planted directly in the ground they have no access to groundwater...

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