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Gardening

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Sun May 25, 2014, 11:43 PM May 2014

One of my gardening projects this year - investigating straw bale gardening [View all]

I've got 17 bales going - trying out tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cukes and melons....going to compare to container and traditional (in the ground) growing - effort, cost, disease incidence, yield, flavor.....using some controls.

What fun! As if I need another gardening project...

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One of my gardening projects this year - investigating straw bale gardening [View all] NRaleighLiberal May 2014 OP

Straw bales like THIS? elleng May 2014 #1

Yes! You treat them for 12-18 days - adding a Nitrogen source and thoroughly watering... NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #4

Sounds interesting, elleng May 2014 #6

As I do it, I am assembling some lists - NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #8

What are those bags that the tomatoes in front ar growing in? femmocrat Jun 2014 #12

Hi there - they are grow bags, and we use them to develop the Dwarf growing tomatoes... NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #13

Thank you! femmocrat Jun 2014 #14

How does this work? Do you use soil in them, fertilizer, compost, ???? uppityperson May 2014 #2

I am checking out several ways... NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #7

I tried this with spuds one year but it didn't work, need to try again. uppityperson May 2014 #9

I'm trying out hydroponics for some of the same reasons Major Nikon May 2014 #3

great! NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #5

It looks interesting Curmudgeoness May 2014 #10

So far, so good - two weeks in and things are growing well in them! NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #11

What a great idea laundry_queen Jun 2014 #15

OK, it's nearly official - I've been asked by Storey to write a book on straw bale gardening... NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #16