GardenStraw provides a natural, sustainable and convenient solution to growing a healthier, more vibrant garden. We know how important it is to be confident in what you’re putting into your soil. Through our unique and innovative cleaning process, we create a bright, fresh, pure and natural garden mulch that is perfect in length and form to encourage healthy plant life and soil conditions.
Extremely versatile, GardenStraw can be used in gardens, raised beds, containers and pots planted with vegetables, herbs, fruit trees/shrubs and flowers. It’s also great for lawn seeding applications.
Composting
- Provides an excellent carbon material for your compost bin
- Makes great compost to add into garden
- Reduces odors by adding to indoor compost pails
- Enhances natural gardening practices
Lawn Seeding
New Lawns & Patch Repair
- Reduces seed loss and keeps seeds in place
- Minimizes weed seed germination
- Keeps soil cool and moist
- No removal necessary
Gardening
Raised Beds, Containers & In-Ground
- Conserves water by lowering water needs by up to 50%
- Prevents weeds, reducing competition for nutrients and water
- Maintains stable soil moisture and temperature
- Reduces soil erosion
- Improves soil fertility and reduces compaction
- Protects plants from soil-borne diseases by shielding them from mud splatter during rain
- Reduces risk of tomato blight and reduces the number of potato beetles
- Keeps your shoes clean
- Acts as natural cushion for knees and joints and is soft to walk on in bare feet
Beginning of the gardening season: 3 easy steps!
Step 1: Weed your garden prior to application
Step 2: Place a 2-3 inch layer of straw while remaining 1 inch away from crowns and stems
Step 3: Water thoroughly - this ensures the straw stays in place naturally!
During the gardening season:
- Water as needed - Simply push back a little of the straw mulch so you can test the soils’ moisture
- Re-apply mulch when the previous layer of straw is breaking down and getting thin (1-3 times, depending on length of growing season).
At the end of the gardening season:
Simply mix it back into the soil or leave it as protection for your soil! GardenStraw decomposes quickly and improves your soils’ health and fertility.
Is GardenStraw 100% wheat seed free?
Due to the nature of the sustainably sourced wheat plant, not all wheat seeds are removed from the straw during harvest. Through our unique and all-natural process, we filter out most wheat seeds. While we strive to remove every wheat seed, it’s not a perfect process; therefore, occasional wheat seeds will sneak through and may sprout in your garden.
That said, unlike grass and weeds, once the wheat seedling is removed (easy to pluck), it won’t regrow and you will continue to experience the many benefits of the GardenStraw mulch - water conservation, weed growth prevention, protecting soils’ microbiome and plants from soil borne diseases, and more.