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Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales: Easy Planting, Less Weeding, Early Harvests. A Storey BASICS® Title

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Di Craig LeHoullier

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Straw bale gardening is an inexpensive, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space. All you need is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and your favorite vegetable seeds! Craig LeHoullier’s step-by-step instructions show you how to do everything from sourcing the straw and setting up your bale to planting, dealing with weeds and pests, and harvesting.

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Editore:: Storey Publishing
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Craig LeHoullier

Craig LeHoullier is the author of Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales and Epic Tomatoes and the tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange. In the last 30 years, he has trialed more than 1,200 tomato varieties and has introduced more than 100 varieties to the trade. He lectures widely, from local Master Gardener groups to Monticello, the Philadelphia and Northwest Flower Shows, and Seed Savers Exchange.

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledments

Introduction

Chapter One: Getting Started

Chapter Two: Gathering Your Materials

Chapter Three: Planning for Success

Chapter Four: Preparing the Bales

Chapter Five: Caring for Your Bale Garden

Chapter Six: What to Grow and How to Grow It

Chapter Seven: Problem Solving

Chapter Eight: What Remains

References

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Index

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Dedicated to my dad, Wilfred (Wild Fred) LeHoullier, who would have gotten such a kick out of this!

Acknowledgments

My love of gardening was instilled in me as a very young child, as I spent hours in the garden with my dad, Wilfred, and grandfather, Walter. The tendency to think of my own eventual gardens as projects — essentially my laboratories — grew during my years in college under the guidance of wonderful professors such as Ken Borst, John Williams, Gordon Gribble, and Charles Marzzarcco. All of my gardening adventures were encouraged by my wife, Susan, and daughters Sara and Caitlin. A fascination with gardening using straw bales grew from a chance meeting with Kent Rogers, when NC Tomatoman met NC Straw Bale Man. I was sold from that first exciting discussion, gave it a thorough first try in 2014, and the result is this book. Thanks also to Carleen and Corey at Storey Publishing for helping me turn my fascination with straw bales into something that I can share with others.

Introduction

Most people think of bales of straw as Halloween or other autumn decorations. Some people use straw bales as building material for temporary or permanent structures. Gardeners frequently use straw as an effective mulch to hold in moisture and prevent weed growth. It may come as a surprise, however, to learn that straw bales are perfect plant hosts for successful gardens.

I first heard about growing plants in straw bales from my gardening friend Kent Rogers, whom many gardeners consider to be an expert in the technique. Kent is extremely enthusiastic about it, and what he described sounded too good to be true: a gardening technique that’s simple, flexible, effective, and relatively inexpensive. It was also something new and different to me, making it a perfect project for me to tackle as I learned more about gardening. Along with providing healthy food and good exercise, gardening should be interesting and enjoyable. I strive to try something new each season, and plunging into straw bale gardening sounded like a perfect fit.

My initial experience with straw bale gardening was just wonderful. I grew many types of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, and cucumbers in the nearly 20 bales that were sprinkled throughout my main garden and driveway growing areas. As an avid container gardener, I appreciated a reduction in the need to fill large pots with expensive potting mix. With the various heirloom tomatoes I chose for the bales, having a disease-free start to seedlings translated to better results when compared to growing them in my garden soil. Things went so well that I plan to at least double the number of bales for this year’s garden. The bales will serve for planting leeks, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots, all of which are a challenge for my soil type but should thrive in the more suitable environment provided by the straw.

Two tomato plants per bale is ideal.

Chapter One

Getting Started

There’s no getting around the fact that gardening is physical work. Although the effort pays off handsomely in fresh, delicious produce, it comes with the unavoidable downsides of a sore back and sweaty clothes. Whether you are turning over the soil in a traditional garden or lugging bags of planting medium for a container garden, you will find it no wonder that gardening is considered good exercise. Happily, straw bale gardening eliminates many of the less enjoyable parts of spring garden preparation. Digging and filling are replaced by simply locating the bales and getting them ready to plant. If that isn’t a ringing endorsement of a gardening method, I don’t know what is!

How It Works

Here’s the simple concept of straw bale gardening: the straw in a bale breaks down over the course of the garden season to provide an effective home for the roots of the plants growing in them.

A bale of straw is like a clean, blank slate. It may be mostly free of plant nutrients, but it is also free of diseases. It acts like a sponge, absorbing water and awaiting application of materials that help the straw break down and produce a perfect environment for the roots.

Although some straw bale gardeners report good results by preparing their bales naturally by simply watering them (see Preparing Bales without Fertilizer), my own experience with that method was not as successful. The other basic preparation I recommend consists of regular top additions of high-nitrogen plant food, followed by deep soaking with water. As the straw begins to break down, the process (called bale cooking) generates heat and forms an increasingly absorptive structure that supports healthy root growth. Regular

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