Raised Bed Straw bale gardening
- Thread starter Pinecone
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Martinhouse
Deceased
Here in Arkansas I would run my well dry trying to keep straw bales cool and damp. Even large containers are a challenge.
ioujc
MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
I tried it last year. It works so-so. I planted about 8 bales with stuff.
It took forever for it to take off, but when it did it was loaded with tomatoes and peppers and pumpkins. It grew until a hard freeze>>>>>when it got colder I would cover it at night and it continued to bear until about the middle of November. Even when it was a hard freeze, I found lots of tomatoes still there and safe under the pile of leaves that had gathered from a tree and weeds and stuff.
It was Okay. The problem is the weeds it let in it's wake>>>>>LOTS of them!
It took forever for it to take off, but when it did it was loaded with tomatoes and peppers and pumpkins. It grew until a hard freeze>>>>>when it got colder I would cover it at night and it continued to bear until about the middle of November. Even when it was a hard freeze, I found lots of tomatoes still there and safe under the pile of leaves that had gathered from a tree and weeds and stuff.
It was Okay. The problem is the weeds it let in it's wake>>>>>LOTS of them!