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 […]
Straw Bale Garden Potatoes
There they are – straw bale garden potatoes, which at first sight are amazingly clean compared to tubers grown in the ground. The first bale out of seven harvested was disappointing. Almost every potato had developed deep cracks long before the plants started dying back, and all of what had been attached to one plant’s […]
Straw Bale Garden Adventures
There it is. Not long after planting. Having plenty of room for a small farm, let alone a garden, some thought I’d lost my mind when I set about growing in straw bales instead of the ground this spring. Not that my soil is anything wonderful, but some of it is greatly improved from decades of […]
How To Grow Better Potatoes
Urban gardening enthusiasts find all kinds of ways to grow food, but not every container and method gives you awesome results. This is especially true with veggie plants that have large root systems, which potato plants do. But they need depth more than they do room to spread, so there’s a trend for growing potatoes […]