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Straw Bale Gardens Complete, Updated Edition
Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Straw Bale Gardens Complete, Updated Edition
Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding
About this book
This new edition of Straw Bale Gardens Complete is the only book you need to get started with the revolutionary gardening method that has taken the world by storm. Written by Joel Karsten, the originator of Straw Bale Gardening, this exciting update contains detailed, start-to-finish instructions for growing vegetables in straw anywhere, plus many new ideas and projects, including how to set up a greenhouse for less than $100 that allows you to start seeds on top of heat-generating straw bale benches.
Whatever your gardening challenge, Straw Bale Gardening holds the solution. Have a small or unusual space? Straw Bale Gardening is perfect for urban, rooftop, and balcony gardens. Contaminated soil? Planting in straw bales eliminates the problem. Are you inundated by weeds? With straw bales, there is no weeding. The advantages of growing a Straw Bale Garden go on and on: they require 75 percent less labor, their raised height makes planting easier, they extend the growing season, prevent disease and insect issues, are portable, hold water well but are impossible to overwater, they create excellent compost, and can be grown 100 percent organically.
Imagine building a simple shoulder season seed-starter greenhouse for under $100 and then heating it with six bales of straw. In this all-new section, Karsten explains how you can build his six-week greenhouse, and set all of your seed trays on the nice warm benches inside, made from straw bales. The heat generated during their early decomposition is the entire heat source for the tiny greenhouse.
Among the new subjects:
Whatever your gardening challenge, Straw Bale Gardening holds the solution. Have a small or unusual space? Straw Bale Gardening is perfect for urban, rooftop, and balcony gardens. Contaminated soil? Planting in straw bales eliminates the problem. Are you inundated by weeds? With straw bales, there is no weeding. The advantages of growing a Straw Bale Garden go on and on: they require 75 percent less labor, their raised height makes planting easier, they extend the growing season, prevent disease and insect issues, are portable, hold water well but are impossible to overwater, they create excellent compost, and can be grown 100 percent organically.
Imagine building a simple shoulder season seed-starter greenhouse for under $100 and then heating it with six bales of straw. In this all-new section, Karsten explains how you can build his six-week greenhouse, and set all of your seed trays on the nice warm benches inside, made from straw bales. The heat generated during their early decomposition is the entire heat source for the tiny greenhouse.
Among the new subjects:
- Building and heating the six-week greenhouse for less than $100
- Cultivating mushrooms in straw bales
- Tips and ideas for making your straw bale garden more attractive
- How to make a cold frame with straw bales
- Trellising projects for growing vertically
- And much more
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Index
accessibility, 44
airflow, 63, 125
alfalfa, 84
algae, 47
annual flowers, 116
aphids, 81
artichokes, 116
arugula, 118
asparagus, 116, 118, 143
aster, 117
Bacillus subtilis, 106
bacteria, 39, 43, 99, 100, 106
bale boxes, 171
BaleBuster, 106
BaleMaker3000
building, 89
description of, 87
design for, 88
reconnoitered bales and, 171
using, 91
bales. See straw bales
basil, 138, 184
beans, 111, 138, 143
bush, 118
green, 168
lima, 115, 118, 143
pole, 118
snap, 115, 118, 143, 184
bedding plants, 79
beets, 112, 114, 115, 118, 137, 143, 168, 171, 185
bell pe...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Sbgs in Small, Urban, and Unusual Spaces
- Straw
- Planning Your Straw Bale Garden
- Organic Straw Bale Gardens
- Bale Variations and Options
- Conditioning the Bales
- Planting Seeds and Seedlings
- Growing Your Straw Bale Garden
- Sbgs and Water
- Harvest Time
- What Remains is Gold
- Straw Bale Structures
- Growing Mushrooms in Straw
- Plant Profiles
- Photo Credits, Resources
- Conversions
- Index
- Meet the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright