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Old 03-19-2011, 12:07 PM
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Anybody in Coastal Carolina every try this?

If you don't know, I guess you have not, but you put bales of straw out, wet them down, fertilize them, and put your plants, less corn, in the bale. Corn gets too tall and topples bale, it is not a problem growing it.

Supposedly is a great alternative to "regular" garden and the benefit is that you can position bales in sun, and it saves bending over (which I never thought of). If you are creative, you can create a design with your bales.

I thought it was pretty straightforward, but the web site I read about said use bales of straw and not bales of hay. At that point I thought I might be in over my head, since I thought they were one in the same. Now I know different.

I sounds great, but I have never heard of it until this week. Any experts out there?

LLN
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Old 03-19-2011, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Morehead City, NC
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LLN,
There is a fellow in my neighborhood that grows tomatoes using bales of straw. He's been doing it for a couple of years now. Seems to work fine for him.
Bill
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Old 03-20-2011, 06:33 PM
 
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We did it last year - grew tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and squash following the methods you described above. The only advice I would add - arrange the bales 2 across using the baling twine to stabilize the shape, as they will eventually start to fall apart and can take your plant with it.

We got great advice from Kent Rogers, a Johnston County gardener with 7 or 8 years of experience under his belt. He has a few pdfs out there, and posts on many local forums, if you google him you will find great info.
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Old 03-21-2011, 02:57 AM
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I thought it was pretty straightforward, but the web site I read about said use bales of straw and not bales of hay. At that point I thought I might be in over my head, since I thought they were one in the same. Now I know different.
Hay is for horses. Straw is for landscaping.
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Old 03-24-2011, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Fayetteville, NC
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We did square foot gardening last year with great success. This year we are putting in 17 4'X4' squares.

My wife wanted to try strawbale gardening this year. I just bought 5 bales today and will get 5 more this weekend. I'm reading up on it right now on how to prepare the bales.

My wife is Filipino and grows all sorts of odd Asian vegetables.
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Old 04-30-2013, 06:25 PM
 
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your wife better not read this
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