Spread a layer of hay, straw, or strawy stable litter a few inches deep over the bed till the heat rises.
Shake out all the rank, dry, strawy part of the manure and lay it aside for other purposes.
Spawn comes in the form of dry, hard, solid manure bricks, and also in the form of flakes of half rotted strawy manure.
When it is applied, however, great care should be taken to prevent overheating; a lessening or entire removal of the strawy covering, and again firmly compacting the surface of the bed will reduce the temperature.
During the autumn months we get along very well with it out of doors; after every turning cover the heap with strawy litter to save it from the drying influences of sun and wind.
After the beds are spawned and molded it is a good plan to cover them with a light coating of strawy litter or hay to prevent drying, but this mulching should be removed when it is near time for the young mushrooms to appear.
The yellow mite (probably Lyroglyphus infestans) is extremely common in strawy litter on the surface of hotbeds, and I have no doubt finds its way into the mushroom house as manure vermin rather than a mushroom parasite.
Some growers use the droppings only, and reject all of the strawy part, or as much of it as they can conveniently shake out.
Enrich with warm, light fertilizers, and if a good heavy coat of hot strawy manure is trenched in the heaviest, stickiest clay, in October or November, strawberries or anything else can be planted the following spring.
Spread it out and cover it with some of the more strawy manure, which is not so liable to freeze.
It converts my poor manure into good, rich, well-decomposed dung, one load of which is worth three loads of your long, strawy manure.
In this connection it should be pointed out that flies breed with great rapidity in the strawy manure of the stable, and such wastes should be spread upon the land almost daily or treated to prevent fly-breeding.
To attain these conditions in garden soil it is desirable to cover it with strawy manure some time previous to plowing, in order that rains may carry the soluble fertility elements into the surface inches of the soil.
Put some strawy manure between the rows of strawberries and keep well watered.
When all is finished give a good mulching of strawy manure, which should be dug in when March comes; and if there is a likelihood of frost, protect the branches with bracken or any light covering.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strawy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
