You’ll NEVER grow potatoes any other way again!
Potato harvest from bales is easy, with no fork or shovel, simply cut the strings and kick over the bales, and pick up the potatoes.
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Vegetable Gardening
Learn about vegetable straw bale gardening and how to grow potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, and more. How to condition your bales and build a trellis.
One KEY to a successful Straw Bale Garden set up is the wire trellis above the bales.
Easy to build with a couple of posts and some wire, a trellis creates a spacious expanse for vines to climb up…spread out…and bathe in the sun.
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Put a heater under your plants?
Poly tent covers help to hold in the heat early in the season when the bales are “conditioning” they give off tons of heat like a natural furnace underneath.
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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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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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