BREAKING DOWN 'Unintentional Tort'. In certain cases, a person causing an accident may be held legally responsible for their negligence and may have to pay a plaintiff for physical injuries, property damage and/or financial loss.
Straw is normally used for a bedding material, while hay is used as a feed supplement. Straw is dried out and works well for building nests and providing cushioning for animals to sleep in. It is not moist like hay and is unlikely to mold.
Straw is preferred to hay as a grass seed mulch because of its lower seed content. Straw is made of the stems of grass plants, while hay contains the stem plus the flowers and seeds. Still, straw will contain some amount of seed from farm grasses and weeds. These plants are undesirable in a new lawn.Removing the straw mulch from the grass seed sooner may lessen the amount of weeds that germinate, although most of the seed content has likely reached the soil in the first few days.irst Cutting of a New Lawn. Until grass seedlings are 2 to 3 inches in tall, they should remain covered by a straw mulch and foot traffic should be avoided.