This question is for farmers/landscapers anyone that works with flowers or have a garden and use straw?

Question

I am curious to know where cant you place straw is it possible for straw to clog or cover storm drains to where there isnt any water going through i am doing an investigation and I need to know if straw can be placed incorrectly too high or in the wrong areas and cause clogging.

Answer 1

Straw is known to carry weed seeds, and if you use it for grass mulch, you need to rake it up. Seems like a nuisance.

In the garden or in flower beds, use plastic landscape fabric and add bark on top. The best fabric is like black canvas cloth. Look for the cloth type instead of that flimsy plastic stuff.

Answer 2

Yes, improperly placed straw can be a real bother.  But it also can be a real life saver.  Right now straw is being scatter over recently burned forest land here.  The straw breaks up rain drops, thus preventing erosion.

When straw is blow onto a hillside during hydroseeding, it is first chopped into smaller pieces and then mixed with a glue to glue the straw to the hillside.  

Where areas are prone to flood, straw should be tied down, wired down to keep it from rafting away.  

Yes, once it moves it can easily clog drains.  The idea is to keep it from moving.  

Have you web searched under soil reclamation techniques? and then adding straw in the search?