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Straw Bale Gardening
Farm1 wrote:
"Dick Adams" wrote: .... Have you tried tomatoes, onions, squash, or melons? I've planted a pumpkin into a well rotted bale into which I cut a hole. It did well. If I was going to plant toms or beans, I'd do them in a bed with bales around like Len did but in a smaller bed than he used. The spuds did well in the bed we put bales around. I always rot my bales for a while before doing anything with them unlike Len did. I buy bales and drop them on the ground and then turn them when I think of it so the soil microbes can start work on them. It appears to me that Len uses the straw bales for both the base and the edge of a garden plot. This is one of the two common forms that I have found. One of my problems is, in spite of my claim of being perpetually 17, my body will be 69 before the next harvest. So I'm looking for raising the height of my garden. Bales also work well to extend the growing season (beginnig and end) and especially if they are starting to rot. Use them straight on the ground to protect things and with an old window or some plastic on the top of them. Extending the season is important to me. Although I'm a Southerner, I currently live just west of Baltimore in the Land of the damnyankee Snow - winters are worse than they are in Armidale. Straw bales could mean an eight month growing season! Dick |
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Straw Bale Gardening
"Dick Adams" wrote in message
Farm1 wrote: "Dick Adams" wrote: .... Have you tried tomatoes, onions, squash, or melons? I've planted a pumpkin into a well rotted bale into which I cut a hole. It did well. If I was going to plant toms or beans, I'd do them in a bed with bales around like Len did but in a smaller bed than he used. The spuds did well in the bed we put bales around. I always rot my bales for a while before doing anything with them unlike Len did. I buy bales and drop them on the ground and then turn them when I think of it so the soil microbes can start work on them. It appears to me that Len uses the straw bales for both the base and the edge of a garden plot. No, he just uses them round the edges. The base is lawn. He may not even use them anymore - those pics on his site are now quite old. |
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Straw Bale Gardening
"PhoenixWench" wrote On 1/6/2012 6:04 PM, Dick Adams wrote: Also I just learned that peppers are perennials! So if they winter indoors, they will prosper again the next spring. This is great news - expecially here in the Land of the damnyankee Snow." Really!? I'll have to try that next fall - all mine are already compost this year :-/ Tomatoes also. I had one I was protecting from frost that lasted almost to the middle of December here in Missouri. It was too big to move indoors intact, but I cut it into pieces and made a whole bunch of new plants out of it. |
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Straw Bale Gardening
Pat wrote:
"PhoenixWench" wrote Dick Adams wrote: Also I just learned that peppers are perennials! So if they winter indoors, they will prosper again the next spring. This is great news - expecially here in the Land of the damnyankee Snow." Really!? I'll have to try that next fall - all mine are already compost this year :-/ Tomatoes also. I had one I was protecting from frost that lasted almost to the middle of December here in Missouri. It was too big to move indoors intact, but I cut it into pieces and made a whole bunch of new plants out of it. That is terrific!! How much light did they get indoors? I will protect you by not refusing to disclose your e-mail address my childbride when my basement becomes a greenhouse or when I tell her why we need greenhouse. This is a great newsgroup. Dick -- Moderator: misc.taxes.moderated and misc.legal.moderated |
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"Dick Adams" wrote Pat wrote: "PhoenixWench" wrote Dick Adams wrote: Also I just learned that peppers are perennials! So if they winter indoors, they will prosper again the next spring. This is great news - expecially here in the Land of the damnyankee Snow." Really!? I'll have to try that next fall - all mine are already compost this year :-/ Tomatoes also. I had one I was protecting from frost that lasted almost to the middle of December here in Missouri. It was too big to move indoors intact, but I cut it into pieces and made a whole bunch of new plants out of it. That is terrific!! How much light did they get indoors? They went into a very bright room with lots of windows on the east and south sides. After it's warm outdoors again, I'll have large, blossoming plants to set out. I will protect you by not refusing to disclose your e-mail address my childbride when my basement becomes a greenhouse or when I tell her why we need greenhouse. ??? This is a great newsgroup. I agree. Dick -- Moderator: misc.taxes.moderated and misc.legal.moderated |
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"Dick Adams" wrote Pat wrote: "PhoenixWench" wrote Dick Adams wrote: Also I just learned that peppers are perennials! So if they winter indoors, they will prosper again the next spring. This is great news - expecially here in the Land of the damnyankee Snow." Really!? I'll have to try that next fall - all mine are already compost this year :-/ Tomatoes also. I had one I was protecting from frost that lasted almost to the middle of December here in Missouri. It was too big to move indoors intact, but I cut it into pieces and made a whole bunch of new plants out of it. That is terrific!! How much light did they get indoors? They went into a very bright room with lots of windows on the east and south sides. After it's warm outdoors again, I'll have large, blossoming plants to set out. I will protect you by not refusing to disclose your e-mail address my childbride when my basement becomes a greenhouse or when I tell her why we need greenhouse. ??? This is a great newsgroup. I agree. Dick -- Moderator: misc.taxes.moderated and misc.legal.moderated |
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I wish you luck, it's no hoeing, tilling or weeding! So easy! |
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I am London (UK) based and very keen to try this myself. Have sent word out to local farms/stables etc but none seem to keep straw bales in stock and shipping them in from the countryside would get expensive. Any London based Gardeners out there know where I could find some straw bales locally?
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