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Straw Bale Garden: Take 2, Scene 2

Tammy Clayton

If you’re going to grow a straw bale garden, adding compost tea with microbes is a definite asset. Not just during conditioning the bales for introducing microbes that make the composting process possible, but in your fertilizing schedule. The difference it makes in growth and vigor is remarkable. Last week, in the Scene 1 of this saga,…

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Straw Bale Garden: Take 2, Scene 1

It’s the second year that I’ve planted a straw bale garden. Spring is always highly anticipated in a cold climate, but this year it couldn’t get here fast enough. I was chomping at the bit to see if what I learned from the first time around would make for a better outcome. Twelve months is…
August 26, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Straw Bale Gardening 2

Things are looking pretty good out there now that we’re almost into mid-August. Straw bale gardening has presented me with challenges just as much as it’s been amazing despite chilly nights all summer, and except for one 10-day stretch of hot days, the average temp this year has been around 74 degrees F. Still the…
August 15, 2015
Tammy Clayton