Straw Bale Gardening In The Desert

Sprinkle each bale with ½ cup urea 46-0-0 and water well into bales. Grow a flat of legumes.

Straw Bale Garden

Straw Bale Raised Bed Garden So many plants grow well here in the High Desert in Southern California and especially in Straw Bale Raised Garden Beds.

Straw bale gardening in the desert. Mix the straw or hay with water in a five-gallon bucket and stir frequently for a day or two. As to water use in straw bale gardening. Overcome Poor Soil Limited Space Weeds Mobility Problems Aching Backs and more.

To successfully garden in straw bales it is necessary to start with a fresh solid bale of straw. Straw is defined as the left over stems of wheat barley and other grains after the seeds are harvested. We have Haogen Melons Cantaloupe Eggplant Red and Orange Bell Peppers Jalapeno Peppers Habenjero Peppers and Aunt Mollys Ground Cherries planted in this Straw Bale Bed.

The main difference is that the container is the straw bale itself and is held together with two or three strings. Many of us are. You can substitute bone meal fish meal or compost for a more organic approach.

While a bale may be 20 high we will plant 16-18 deep in a crack in the bale. Days 4 to 6. When you use straw bales you will be able to have better soil conditions that those found in some areas of the state.

Straw bales both drain and hold moisture exceptionally well. You dont want to cut the strings when you plant because the straw bale will fall apart. The way straw bale gardening works is that the straw composts at a fairly quick rate and in doing so the composting straw provides the necessary nutrients for the plants concurrently as the plants reach maturity and begin to go into production.

Once the straw inside the bale begins to decay the straw becomes conditioned compost that creates an extraordinary plant rooting environment. Keep an eye on the legumes to see how they respond. Then use the water on the legumes.

As Gardeners we are often vexed by too small a growing space less-than-desirable soil too many weeds or a host of other problems. Gardening in Straw Bales. The goal is to moisten the inside of the bale so it decomposes and then its easier to dig and plant.

However as time went on it just became a part of how we gardened. Home Desert Gardens Straw Bale Gardening in Arizona Low Desert. You cant flood a straw bale garden.

After that water the bales for 3 days and cover them with a tarp. Thats an ideal range for most edibles. I used about a cup of nitrates on each bale.

Days 7 to 9. Straw Bale Gardening is simply a different type of container gardening. First you need a straw bale.

Any kind of container gardening uses more water and raised beds of any kind do as well. In a straw bale we simply plant the potato cutting deep into the bale. Most of the straw was still pretty much straw There were a few levels of deterioration to be noted in the straw.

Cut back to ¼ cup urea or substitute per bale per day and continue to water well. Essentially straw is the leftover stalks from harvesting cereal grains and isnt edible so its used as animal bedding. Straw beats Bermuda grass hay for insect infestation.

The virgin soil within the bale has a very neutral pH so depending on your water your soil will be about a 68 to 7 on the pH scale. It was good soil except for the bits of clay and rock that had stowed away and kept pushing their way to the top. The looseness of the bale will allow the stem to easily reach the surface and the potatoes will form along this stretch of stem filling the bale.

And best of all you will have higher gardening beds to work in. Hay works as well and contains more nutrients but the primary reason to purchase straw instead is cost. If the second and third set of leaves look normal the straw hay.

Water the bales thoroughly and keep them damp. A lot of people have poor or potentially toxic soil or very little soil at all so they cant plant in the ground. The next 3 days sprinkle nitrates and water.

We began a straw bale garden in our Arizona backyard in March of 2020. Using straw bales to garden in is a way that Arizona gardeners can compensate for a few different problems. The middle of the straw bale garden had been filled with composted dirt from the adjacent chicken yard.

Its not that excessive. In the beginning I thought I would do a day by day of the conditioning process or that I would have a series on straw bale gardening. Days 1 to 3.

The straw is generally baled and sold for livestock bedding mulching construction and.

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