Straw Bale Gardening Blood Meal

Stick your hand inside a bale. The bales may feel dry on the outside but they are wet and squishy on the inside.

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Above are a few pictures from my trip showing the Cambodian adaptation of the STRAW BALE GARDENS method.

Straw bale gardening blood meal. We start with a bale of straw and add a nitrogen source over the period of a couple of weeks. It says that you should add about 2 12 cups of 20 N fertilizer or three pounds of blood meal and feather meal per bale. It is used mostly for vegetables but anything could be grown in it.

Really good soil is made from this decomposed organic material. In short you take a bale of straw and condition it for a couple of weeks by adding fertilizer and water. Joel Karsten Straw Bale Gardening Blog 8 Comments.

Straw bale gardening is a great option for people who have limited mobility poor soil quality or limited space. Straw bales hay can be used but will sprout grass weeds. Joey talks about how to grow in straw bales there are some steps to it but when done right it work wonderfulTo buy the Book.

Then you plant in it. Feed the bales using a high-nitrogen organic liquid fertilizer any standard vegetable and flower mix will be fine. Organic Gardening in Straw Bales.

Blood meal is another high nitrogen organic fertilizer that acts quickly but not as quickly as fish emulsion so your bales may take a little longer to decompose. Bloodmeal is the main fertilizer used in the conditioning of your straw bale garden. These high-nitrogen sources feed the rapidly-reproducing bacteria which cause the bales.

To check out tips and tricks on straw bale gardening c. Stop feeding but keep the bales damp. Over the past fifteen days Ive been conditioning my straw bale garden by adding blood meal and a lot of water.

Airdate 03232019 4538Host Casey Hentges shows us how to set up straw bales for future gardening. How does an organic gardener condition the straw bale. We have included a chart with a schedule for watering and fertilizing.

Simply add it to your watering can as directed on the pack and pour onto the bales. I recently read a NY Times article about straw bale gardening. The straw slowly decomposes providing nutrients for the plants and an airy environment for the plant roots.

Warm water is best keep this up alternating for the first 6 days on day 8 decrease fertilizer to 14 cupplant on day 12. The bare necessities are. This process allows the straw to break down into a compost-type material.

You need only a few items to get started. A hand trowel to place plants into the straw bales. Two great options are blood meal or Milorganite.

Conditioning is water 1st day 12 cup of water soluble fertilizer sprinkled on the bale and water. During the conditioning process we had both a freak rainstorm helpful and a freak heatwave not so good. To explain how important this method of growing can be to this population.

The Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere advises organic gardeners to use 3 cups of blood meal or feather meal. Add water wait for the temperature to decrease and then plant. Fertilizer nitrogen blood meal or bone meal.

More information on Bloodmeal is included with this information sheet. Joel Karsten author of Straw Bale Gardens.

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