Day 6:

Today we put a half cup of fertilizer on each bale and put warm water on them..

Day 7:

Today we just put warm on them..
The straw bales are beginning to show signs of the conditioning process..

                                                         these are our basil sprouts..
                                                                  

                                                                    J M MASTER

Day 4:

Just warm watering 1-2 gallons per bale.


Day 5:  

Half a cup of fertilizer and warm water.


Sorry not much to report...still conditioning the bales :)


We do have very small basil sprouts in the milk jugs though!

                                                          (taken at a new friends farm :)

Mama Gardener

Day 3:

Today the straw bales needed another half cup each of fertilizer and a warm water soaking.

Two by fours were added to the tops of the posts to stablize them. (Thanks to my DH)

 

















 Fourteen gauge wire was run between the posts, two lines 10 and 20 inches above the bales and one line at 30 inches.  These are for any vegetables that can climb like vines.

Black trash bags were anchored in between the rows with cedar mulch covering it so melons won't be in the grass and weeds as they grow off of the bales.

We recently got a large roll out recycle bin, so our old ones were re purposed for blueberry bushes.  I cannot wait to see how they do.  The milk jugs are holding some of our basil and cilantro seedlings.

Mama Gardener

Day 2:

We were going to water the straw bales but it had rained last night.

We put in one garden post at both ends of each row.

                                                                  J M MASTER

Day 1:

We bought six bales of wheat straw at our local hardware store.
We also bought this fertilizer (one pound per bale):

 

The bales are lined up 3 in a row north to south. The strings are on the sides.

 

We put half a cup of the fertilizer on each bale.
                                                                   

We watered it down with a hose.


















Nicolas JM

Welcome to The Straw Bucket.  This is our adventure into Straw Bale Gardening inspired by this book: