Second Season Straw Bale Planting
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- Complete second season planting growing and harvesting from my hay and straw bale garden project. Had great results this summer. Huge yields with almost no maintenance other then watering.
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You are the BEST !! I love your teachings . Please more on medicinal Plants. I loved the one on Milk Thistle !
yes, more on the medicinals,please.
I like your videos because you get to the point and you are very knowledgeable! Thank you! I can't wait to start!
Great job! You, by far, have the best straw/hay bale gardening vid on youtube. Thanks and God bless.
Everything is doing so well in that straw bale garden. Thanks for the information.
thanks very much for the update - this was my first spring/summer with strawbale gardening - I will plant again next spring.
Just spent an enjoyable morning going thru your videos. I can't wait to get started!
The bales worked out great!! The toms and peppers love it... everything is doing great!! ... Great tips!!.. thanks!!
Your plants looks amazing. Really love what I see. I'm on my third year and now is that my plants are working. I had a hard time because outside of flowers I didn't know how to garden but I'm getting better as time goes on. My mom comes every year to help me since I'm disable I can't plant every where but I still have lots of plants. Great video
Thanks for these videos and updates. I'm going to try this next year.
Happy Holidays and a Healthy NEW YEAR. Thank you for sharing ideas and experience in your straw bale garden. I am looking forward to see more of the gardening techniques that you develop.
Beautiful gardening and it's easy to see how much better the straw bales from starter seed cups are doing in comparison to the in-ground seed planted. It's truly amazing.... the difference. Thank you for sharing all your videos and updates.
YOUR AWESOME GIRL !! Keep the vids rolling......... Thank You and Yours, God Bless you !!
Your bales are amazing. I've grown onions, carrots, watermelons, cantaloupe, peppers, tomatoes, beets, squash, as well as herbs in my two year old bales with great success. And adding lots of compost tea has been an added benefit.
The bale planting to me is genius. Thank you for sharing this video.
God, I missed you. . So good to see you.
Brilliant setup, i will be doing something similiar in the fall to keep the birds out and extend the season. Thanks for the great idea.
You are awesome! You are so real and down to earth. I can tell how much you love what you do. You do not leave me and others asking questions. I love growing my own. My Grandfathers both had substantial gardens and i so much enjoyed helping them with planting harvesting canning cooking and eating. My personal life has been a struggle growing. deer rabbits bugs or disease got my stuff every time. I live on the water just retired and am looking for a way to be successful. do not have much land but have a large pier. I think your video gave me some hope. My major enemy is wind. Hurricanes and North Easter winds. God bless you and I am looking forward to learning more from you.
Thanks for putting together this series of straw bale gardening videos. Great stuff. Looking forward to trying this now!
You're welcome
i tried this and had great luck.
Your garden is beautiful.glad it works for you.ive purchased 20 bales hay.going to try and get something going in my quictent tunnel. I usually only grow a few peppers over winter in there and my young trees. But if I start winter the bales, like you said, will be ready for spring.thanks for your info. Take care, and healthy happy growing.
awesome..dontstop..great job
I love it...you inspire us all..😃
I love your eyes, they look awesome :D
keep going
Hey Miranda, thanks for all the info and your sheer drive to educate. Thanks for all the time you give too! We can live and eat better and with less expense, Thanks to you! Every video you've made has taught me something. Thanks, Really
You're very welcome and that you so much for you're kind words. I truly appreciate them. Really
Speaking for many, You're appreciated!
Thank you :)
Just found your channel and vids on straw bale growing, this is not something I've done before but has inspired me to give it a try.
In my City the urban soil in very contaminated and I've been looking for practical solutions to this problem to build a successful and safe growing outdoor urban farm plot and your method looks the best I've ever seen to build up great soil, thank you :-)
Mahalo so much for sharing ur garden!! 💞 the update everything looks awesome & healthy great cuks love how its hanging in there!! Hope u make more upcoming vidz mahalo from Hawaii!!🌺🌻!
This is new to me! Love this!!
this is beautiful I am going to try this thanks
do you have a video that shows how you made your greenhouse and then how you change it over to a spring/summer garden and put the shade cloth over it? I love how you have a "system" to grow your food in all seasons! Great videos!
I AM Glad to see you back in the Gardened ,I miss seeing your videos, hope you are back on a regular video show, I don't miss a one they are very good , take care, Thanks for sharing, and you are looking fine as always, :)
If you have chickens another trick is letting them winter on top of the straw bales. The extra phosphorus from the chickens is like rocket fuel to plants. Fantastic results. I Always love your videos.
the bricks you are useing to shore up those bales can be used to plant in as well, i don't use invasives in those pockets but things like beets, carrots and spices work well without getting too tall to work over or around...i had good luck with just pure composted grass clippings.
Awesome channel, we'll put together. can't get enough
so good to . see you again miss your videos
thank you for the video you have answered the question of growing watermellon in the straw bales. I want the heat from the bales because we have a short season in the north. I want to grow the Carolina Cross watermellon but I thought that the ground needed to be loose in order for the mellons to grow.
Nice garden. Great job.
Wow nice garden!
very nice indeed,love the cukes hanging from the ceiling.i have had zero luck in the last few years with my efforts.i guess like that guy said in that movie"the days of sniffin the dirt are over",...meaning im gonna try this way,
Great video; Thanks.
Good job Lady👍
youdid a great job ,I'll will try it this winter here in yuma az which is not very cold in the winter .
Nice,, keep the videos coming.
Great job
Great job, God Bless.
your eye makeup looks great.
Looks beautiful, I might have to try my luck with the straw bales again next year. I only grew potatoes in the remnants from last year, this year :-)
A very smart young lady
Nice, I grew some huge lettuce on my channel. I think I will try the hay bail tomatoes like you did , hopefully with your results.
Like your videos, very informative. Very pretty eyes , keep up the good work .
Nice job
Thank you!
Simply beautiful.... them blue eyes
Awesome - well done
You could use paper tubes from tiolet paper rolls thus just put the half roll in the dirt and the roots just break them down
Amazing eyes miss. Best
Please do a video on how your green house is constructed.. plants look wonderful btw.
这两眼珠子灰白色的，很漂亮，还是第一次见到这颜色的
I've got to try this with my tomatoes...
Thanks for the great video, I would like to know what kind of netting you used on top of your garden? to Keep the birds out.-----Thanks
Hi there, Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I'm in Quebec Canada and I've just set up 12 straw bales and using Turf Builder 32-0-4 because I just couldn't find pure nitrate. I'm on day 10 and the bales haven't even started to heat up and brake. Any suggestions?
I love your accent!
Dude.. your eyesss!!! WOWWW! lol
Great job Heather !
Wado for sharing.
Never see your husband ? Yall should do a couple vids together.
Yall be safe !
That is a beautiful garden, you have me very interested in growing this way ever since i watched your first video on it. About how long do your hay bales last before you have to replace them?
Great video! I have been researching about straw bale gardening and couldn't find a answer if I could use hay instead of straw....but now that I know I can I have another question... Does weeds grow from the hay bales since there is more weed seed? Thx for sharing your knowledge to all of us 😉
This is so amazing! How easy to plant our own food can it get!? I am for sure going to try this myself. Only question I would have would be will I have to treat my bales for powdery mold as I would my ground garden? Have had an issue with this going on 2 seasons.
Shouldn't have too. The high temps should sterilize everything
I have just found your videos and I am excited to try your techniques.What is your location? Just wondering about your climate. Hope to see more of your videos.
Outstanding. growth !! Such a beautiful food jungle !! What was the area size of your food jungle plz ??
I started straw bales this summer. I definitely didn't do it right... all they are growing are black smelly mushrooms and mold, with a few selective plants that are 'surviving'. Somehow they are also growing grass, even though I bought straw! Hope next year will be a better run!
If youre getting mushrooms and mold youve done it right. I did three bales this year and mushrooms are still growing daily but my tomatos are doing wonderful.
Ray Miller
what color are your mushrooms? Mine are the darkest looking evil mushrooms I've seen. Lots grow on the bales and it seems some plants may have even been killed off by them, or the fungus in the bales. Hard telling.. I need more experience with this. I wish I knew that I could have used hay... would have saved a ton of money. I'm getting grass even with straw, so straw didn't help.
Ink caps is what have been common. Black tops that drip like tar. they die off quickly No harm to anything. Tomatoes peppers, basil etc were not effected by them . I have some grass coming up. Very east to pull. My biggest issue is slugs. I would go ahead and put some plants in a test them. Just check the temp first.
Hi; could you do a video on growing turmeric and ginger. Thanks. Did you ever grow in a composting pile? Did you ever use worm tea from your worm bin? Is the fish juice better then worm tea? Also did you ever do hydroponics? How do you keep the green house warm in the winter?: Thanks; great video.
As I've been watching your videos it occurred to me that the principles behind straw bale gardening is the same as the wood chip style of gardening. If someone wanted to start using wood chips to garden in they could lay down the wood chips and then put the straw bales on top. This way you could get growing right away and after bales have broken down the wood chips would be ready. Just a thought.
THANKSGIVING
Do you cut the baling strings when they are in place? Really great videos, Many thanks.
What are your thoughts about building a 2*12 box to start bales then when the bales brake down there in the box?
Do you guys ever come out to Arizona? Maybe we can share skills.
- Jeff
You really make me miss my garden in Ohio..... I now live in Florida and can't grow much here..... I have grown some pineapples, but that's about it.....
William Evans i hear ya william,i live in florida and its tough.i have had some luck...with trees! but you cant eat them.i used to live in lorain co. ohio
I was just west of Toledo, raised great gardens especially tomatoes, corn, okra etc....
William Evans ...isn't it terrible?! It's sooo hot, I haven't grown a tomato in three years - they just aren't doing well here in Orlando for me. Question: With only Lowe's and Home Depot...where do I buy bales of hay?!?
I would imagine you would have to drive through the countryside in farm or horse country...... There isn't anything close by me here west of Orlando.....
Donna Conrad You have all the tools you need. The internet. You can do some research in your area or like William Evans commented, go for a ride into the country side and stop at those corner stores. Ask questions to the locals. Someone is bound to give you the references you need. Good hunting.
Hey ht. I'm new at all this gardening and try I g to be better at home life and family. I love all your advice so far. do u have any help on natural energy
You are a lovely young woman. I really enjoy your tutorial and your sincerity. I'm doing this next year. If you mentioned this I missed it but do you get garter-snakes? And I think you said not many insects correct?
i did get lots of garter snakes living around the bales, no biggie just leave them be, let them work your garden over.
How long can I use these briquettes to replace with new ?
Miranda-how do potatoes do with SBG? I hope you see this because I know it is an older video...I will ask on the video about growing potatoes too.
How did the winter tomatoes turn out?
Beautiful, but I am curious as to why you removed the greenhouse.
It's not removed. I take the plastic off in the summer and put a shade cloth
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I just started my own small garden. I cant imagine you are able to eat everything right away. what do you to to store/save all of the extras so that they're not wasted?
Freeze, dry, or can
Perhaps if you put (more) mulch /organic matter on the ground, the tomatoes in the soil will grow also very good.
I just have to try this.. Do you have to water a little more using straw bales ? those yellow beans look really good ! thank you .
I am wondering why the plastic covering was removed for the summer planting? btw, thanks
How do you handle pests (bugs, caterpillars, worms), blight and fungus?
Hi I just found your channel and like what I see. I live in a big city in Canada where I have a few raised beds and a lot of tomatoes growing in buckets. And a lot of rabbits. I was wandering if rabbit manure would make a good fertilizer to get straw bales working. I think the straw is a great idea the price of a bale here is about the same price as a bucket but you can grow more in them.
Rabbit manure for ye conditioning process would work but would take a lot longer then you think straight nitrate. I would recommend using the nitrate to get it conditioned quickly then after that switching to strictly rabbit manure. You should get really healthy happy plants if you do that.
I didd't think straight nitrate bought in bags would be organic. Thanks for replaying so quick. I watched a lot of your videos. Especially that 7 hole rabbit cage. It was being quite educational.
I'm in Vermont do you think the heat from the bale would help heat the green house?
Can you plant closer together than you would in soil? How dense?
How long can you typically continue to reuse the same bales? Do they generate enough heat to expose what you're growing to the elements earlier?
Did you have to refertilize before planting the 2nd time
Did the summer plants you planted in the fall garden work?
Where to get true straw nails in the south? I can only get “costal hay” in my area…
Your garden needs a mulch covering. Like wood chips. Check out the Back to Eden gardening videos on TH-cam. Theres lots of people doing this now a days. We're doing this and getting real good results with tomatoes, etc.
. I like your videos and your straw bale videos. I like all your videos.
+mtnmanrab Mulch is great but I wouldn't use wood chips in a veggie garden, it is too acidic. It is fine for flower gardens though. I tried wood chips in my veggie garden one year and not even the tomatoes liked it. The only thing that didn't mind it was the raspberries.
mtnmanrab
Looks good...is steaking. The tomatoes a big deal ..also the tomatoes are they bush type?....good work.
Do you use hay or straw bales...and where do you get them?
Did you condition the ground also
What zone are you in? I am trying to get an idea of what to expect next winter here in zone 5b. TIA!
For the 2nd year, I assume you don't have to go through the 10 day fertilizing conditioning? Thanks.
No you only do that the first time
Yum. Did you add any nitrogenous fertiliser to the hay bales other than fish emulsion?
No just the fish juice
i used high nitrogen to just condition the bales and a little mixed with blood meal mid-summer just to boost it. no problem.