to be chafoin wrote:...
(On the other hand the advice given for the moment of the spreading of the hay was rather january, so a pity that you did not make the comparison by depositing at the same time the 2 hay ...)
When was your straw hay broke: in August just before putting it on?
what was there in the fall (and before) on the plot where you put the young hay in January? cover, crop, bare soil?
It is also likely that there are big differences between the hays, even between those mown at the same time (exposure and state of the meadow ...)
1 / - strawy hay must have been mowed in late July, already dry!
2 / - there were the remains of dying plants (tomatoes, squash, zucchini, eggplants etc.); mustard was also sown in November. The weeds were happy (if I may say so). Some places were "scantily dressed" (not to say naked).
I started the display of hay in August on the advice of Didier: better cover than leave the plot we had just taken, full of weeds. He even advised to leave the huge weeds on the ground (by cutting them down) - which I had not done, considering that these stems over 2 meters would be a problem (I was wrong). I made a bunch of it and I used it in January spreading it over the potato area. This pile was very well mushroomed (many white hyphae everywhere) in January.