Originally Posted by Journeyman
... well water on a float valve right?

Yes.

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Can you verify if the bales were from the same source? Was it entire years, or maybe just during a certain weather periods?

She uses small packets of barley straw sold just for troughs - maybe the size of a football. And they get reused, so that they might be 3 years old sometimes. (Can't verify source due to sporadic purchases.)

Last year it was a new one, and it didn't work real well. IIRC there has been some info that "moldy barley straw" controls FA - maybe that's why new straw last year was disappointing..

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