Beautiful Vegetable Garden – Anywhere – NO SOIL REQUIRED!
Joel’s story about how he got the idea to build his first straw bale garden.
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Straw Bale Gardens Blog
Learn about growing vegetables, organic techniques and buy straw bales for your straw bale garden. Read stories and FAQs about straw bale gardening.
What about mice in my Straw Bale Garden, doesn’t straw attract rodents and snakes?
Once the straw bale is saturated with water and begins to break down and heat up inside the bale, the bale is not at all hospitable to a mouse or snake.
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Why can’t I find fertilizer that doesn’t say “slow release” on the bag?
To really get the real truth, you should look carefully at the analysis label on the bag. The truth lies within this labels information.
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Where do the plants get nutrients from, when they are planted in a Straw Bale?
We start with a straw bale but we don’t plant anything in the bale for several weeks, until we first “condition” the bale.
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My bales are not getting hot, am I doing something wrong?
You started conditioning your bales, but were interrupted. Snow, rain, cold slowed your progress. You are concerned the bales will not be ready to plant on time
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What about mold on the bales, isn’t mold bad?
Plants growing in a bale with mold on it, actually benefit from the mold as mold is a decomposer, helping to break down the substrate into soil.
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What side of the bale goes up? What if my strings are on that side?
We prefer to have the cut side of the bale facing up. The open stem ends allow easier penetration of the granular fertilizer and the water.
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How to find Straw Bales for FREE!
Once one becomes a fan of the Straw Bale Gardening method, it is amazing how many bales turn up in strange places.
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Why Straw Bale Gardening?
Growing a successful vegetable garden is difficult enough if you have terrific soil to plant your garden into, but with
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Can I do this where I live?
The short answer here is absolutely yes. This method of gardening works very well from areas inside the Arctic Circle,
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