I would add more mulch. It's probably not too late to find some OPBL's [Other People's Bagged Leaves].

Yep you got the wheat or whatever kind of straw you have resprouting
$4 a bale is insane in Iowa but thats another story(:

Let it go this late in the year there is not to much time left for it to grow if it greens up in the spring throw more mulch over some of mine sprouted but never really seemed to get far enough to worry about

"Coverage is about 20 bales, at 4.00 ea. Attempts to follow up on local sources "

We're burning the stuff up here.

Sad.

Lloyd

If possible add manure, OPBL great to.
Other than that turn in the straw and overseed with annual winter rye grass. I love the stuff it grows any non freezing day and just turn in for spring planting.

It sounds to me like there were a lot of wheat seeds in the straw. Some farmers are good about threshing out all the grain when they combine the wheat and some others don't get all the wheat out of the straw.
I used some straw one time on some strawberries...ugh with all the volunteer wheat. Most times though there is not much seed in the straw. It might be a good idea to shake out a bit of the straw before buying to see if it contains seeds.

You could cover with cardboard to smother the grass.

Karen

What is sprouting is the grain the straw was when it was growing and that could be wheat, oats, rye, rape and those sprouts are not a problem since they are simply more of what you plunked down. Whether these will winter kill or not depends on what they are, some (oats) are not winter hardy and some wheats also are not winter hardy.
That green growth is not a real problem.

They burn it..? Mon Dieu!
C'est incroyable!

Do they know one could build houses out of it?!

Thanks for the encouraging advice all.

Thanks for your post too.
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