Straw Bail Garden
So i called up joel karsten author of straw bale gardens and lead authority on all things straw.
Straw bail garden. Two years ago i got some local straw bales and even after two months with lots of rain no ink caps showed up. In this first chapter youll learn about the benefits of a straw bale garden and what youll need to create your own. Gardening with straw bales is the answer to any organic gardeners prayers. This is key because hay bales will have even more weeds than straw bales.
If you can put your straw bale garden near a water source. Advantages to the method include. Straw bale gardening is simply a different type of container gardening. If you are keen to start your own straw bale garden you will want to know which vegetables work best with this unique gardening technique.
I would set the bales at the ends of my garden beds and let them partially decompose before spreading them on my beds as mulch. Once the straw inside the bale begins to decay the straw becomes conditioned compost that creates an extraordinary plant rooting. See our guide to what works well here. Straw bale gardening is just that planting your seedlings into bales of straw.
Make sure you get straw bales not hay bales. As the straw breaks down over the course of the summer it turns into compost that feeds your plants. Dont make a hay bale garden. The main difference is that the container is the straw bale itself and is held together with two or three strings.
Try solarizing your bales. One of the neatest ideas ever its not too late for you to give straw bale gardening or hay bale gardening a go somewhere around your place. I used straw bales in my garden for years. They function essentially as a raised bed each bale is 1416 inches high and a container garden in one.
If your soil is so poor that amending or enhancing it with compost fertilizers or leaf mold makes you exhausted just thinking about it then using straw bales for planting may be the perfect solution. Its inexpensive usually well under 10 you can put it wherever you want and itll eventually turn into compost so what is your garden this year can feed your garden next yearhows that for recycling. Karsten argues that straw is an ideal container for growing vegetables. When it comes to thrifty versatile ways to garden its hard to beat gardening using a bale of straw.
There are quite a lot that works well but a few to avoid and some to leave for when you are more experienced with straw bale gardening. Usually after a rain they would explode with ink cap mushrooms. Faced with the expense ok and effort of building raised beds i decided instead to go cheap and easy. A straw bale garden.
Youll get one good season out of a hay bale garden and usually two with a straw bale albeit with a bit of sag.
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