How finely shredded is it? If too fine it may form a dense mat.

tj

is it untreated with growth-stopper? if so you can ruin your plants.

around here it is impossible to get oldfashioned small straw bales so I got the current version, shredded straw, about 2 inches long, pressed and shrink wrapped... 20 kg or 40+ pounds

first I tested . them on one row of potatoes and to my relief some wheat seeds/ left overs started to sprout, so no chemicals...

I use this stuff on poatoes (after hillig them up) and almost everywhere where I need some mulch, like young cucumbers or new perennials and I quite like it, I put down a thin layer

SLugs are always a problem so I use some kind of organic slug bait

I use pine straw.

ace hardware has pine straw . price looks good. on the picture of the bag it looks pretty good . was going to order a few bags and check it out.. if it is not what i want i can just not take them. thanks

I use wheat straw now too. Much cheaper and easier to spread than pine needles. I do a fairly large area. Our wheat bales will germinate some straw, but the seedlings are easy to pull out or just to step on.