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Straw Bale Gardening
On Jan 6, 6:04*pm, (Dick Adams) wrote:
wrote: wrote: (Dick Adams) wrote: Anyone here into straw bale gardening? Like to read opinions on it before I try it. I used straw bales and old shower doors for a cold frame one or two years. It worked well. I tried tomatoes in a bale a few years with no luck at all. I am not sure exactly what happened but they didn't grow well and then got wilt. Thanks - I'm considering tomatoes. *The management of my house wants them planted in area she has assigned to me for gardening because she thinks they will be top heavy. As for the problem with your tomato plants, my initial questions a 1. Was there enough well-composted soil in the straw bale? 2. Were the straw bales adequately soaked and fertilized? 3. Did the plants get enough sunlight? My limited experience says that vegetables should be planted in rows North_to_South maximize exposure to the sun. *Last year I crowded the rows of Habenero Peppers to fit them all in the garden plot. *The quality of harvest was definitely a function of row position - from excellent to poor. 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." There was no compost of any kind in the straw. They were soaked and fertilized and had plenty of sun. The bale was placed between my 2 raised strip bed gardens so it was able to utilize the irrigation system as well as the sun. To be fair, I have not had very good luck with tomatoes in any way shape or form in this garden so I can't be sure that the bale had anything to do with it. When I did pull the plants out I did notice that the root structure was not as vast as usual. There were hardly any of the tiny filler (finger?) roots. Maybe the straw was too dense for them to grow. MJ |
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