Oat seeds for use as mulch - 100 seeds

Oat seeds, 100 seeds.

When the young leaves are still green before the grains mature, they can be tilled directly into the soil as green manure. After the grains have ripened, the straw can be used as mulch after the seeds have been harvested. Areas mulched with straw will have significantly less weed growth, similar to when mulch is applied. Since it takes about 3 months from planting to harvest, you can produce your own straw twice a year.
In my area, there are free fields where you can take straw freely, but I can't go during the times they are open because I'm busy. Therefore, I use oats and rye for mulching.

It is an annual plant and is written as 燕麦 in kanji. The kanji 円麦 and the reading enmugi are incorrect. It is also called oat from its English name. Morphologically, the genus Avena includes diploid sand oats and hexaploid common oats.

It is widely cultivated for feed, used as forage for silage and green harvesting, and is the second most important winter forage crop after Italian ryegrass. In warmer regions, it is typically sown in autumn and overwintered, while in colder regions, it is sown in spring and harvested in summer or autumn. Additionally, many products sold as cat grass are oats.

Spring sowing (early March to late May) and autumn sowing for overwintering (mid-October to early November) are possible. Due to its vigorous growth, it provides a large amount of organic matter when tilled into the soil. Some varieties have a suppressive effect on the root-lesion nematode ( *Pratylenchus penetrans* ).