How To Plant A STRAW BALE GARDEN In 4 Easy Steps

In this video, I share how to plant a straw bale garden in 4 easy steps. Did you know you can grow plants in straw bales? Growing in straw bales is an easy, affordable way to grow food in small spaces and large spaces alike! This video explains the full planting procedure including fertilizing.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Straw Bale Gardening
0:46 Step #1: Verify Straw Is Free Of Herbicides
3:22 Step #2: Straw Bale Plant Spacing
4:30 Step #3: Adding A Growing Medium
7:21 Step #4: Fertilizing Straw Bales
9:38 How To Plant Vegetables In Straw Bales
13:01 Straw Bale Garden Planting Results
15:02 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about growing vegetables in straw bales, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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0:00 Intro To Straw Bale Gardening
0:46 Step #1: Verify Straw Is Free Of Herbicides
3:22 Step #2: Straw Bale Plant Spacing
4:30 Step #3: Adding A Growing Medium
7:21 Step #4: Fertilizing Straw Bales
9:38 How To Plant Vegetables In Straw Bales
13:01 Straw Bale Garden Planting Results
15:02 Adventures With Dale

[growagarden]

My very first vegetable garden was a straw bale garden. No need for extra fertilizer. The best and amazing benefit to straw bale gardening is that the bale is the "container" and the "fertilizer". I did this for 5 yrs. After I conditioned the bales, I never had to fertilize again after planting with fish. After fertilizing, to plant seeds, you do need to place an inch of potting/compost on top. However, after conditioning, you can dig into the bale and I added anchovies from the fish and tackle store. That's it! once and done for the season. To plant seedlings, dig a hole into the bale, add the fish, the compost, and the seedling. It is the best! No need for any! additional fertilizer!

[garthwunsch]

I’m intending to try this, and to make the planting hole, I’ll use a recipe saw.

[Dieselhondas]

Bales go cut side up. Not flat. Helps retain water.

[michaelreed]

Hi. I've been gardening for 4 years and have learned so much every year. I'm new to your channel and really enjoying your presentation of facts and the knowledge you include. Thanks for all your thoughts and effort. I am ramping up to planting in raised beds for my first time this year and hay bales seem like a great(less expensive) alternative to allow me to elevate more of my garden than just the 3 metal raised beds that I have invested in so far. Sounds like Nightshades are good candidates for this format of growing. Are there any bush type plants that you don't recommend to try in hay bales? Also- I'm very new (this year) at fertilizing my garden more generally. I have been using Tomato Maker and had good success with that but have not fertilized beyond what is in the soil for other crops. I'm not timid about them, but just inexperienced. So Urea- It sounds like there may be some left in the runoff of the water from my hay bales (that I will be starting to prepare tomorrow) My yard slopes downward toward my patio and house. I am hoping to put bales at the top part of the slope, but I am concerned- will Urea that flows over the ground make it toxic or unfriendly for the beans that I will be growing in the runoff area? Or should I move the bales to the bottom of the slope so it hits the retaining wall and runs off to the outer edge of my yard?

[YuehHan]

Tammy, did you use drip irrigation with the straw bale construction? I would think it would be much easier to do so. As I told this gardener I will be building my bale garden next year. I'm so excited.

[Gardeningchristine]

Potted up tomatoes today. We’re supposed to get down to 35 this weekend so I’m going to wait to put the rest out. The ones in ground already will have to get covered for a couple nights this weekend. Oh well, that’s nothing new. I rush everything out every year, then have to cover everything at least twice 😅😂🌱❄️

[SistersBreakingBad]

How often do you fertilize because I don’t think their is the same nutrients in straw as soil? Or is how you transplanted with all the fertilizer and fish emulsion etc enough to take them through harvesting?

[chrispisanelli]

Hi, I'm brand new to straw bale gardening, thanks for all your tips. How long after I'm done conditioning the bale is it safe for worms to add them?

[kimberlywelsh]

Have you ever used olla or terra cotta watering spikes in straw bale gardening for slow release watering ?

[sylvia]

This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing MG😊👍

[Blueree]

What I didn’t hear was how often you mixed up the fish emulsion and 20:20 to water the plants.
It seems like a lot of fertilizer to water every day.
Would you fertilize like this daily or weeekly?

[Tidefan]

Less weeding they say! This is my first year planting in straw bales, and I’ve plucked enough wheat to solve world hunger. Lol

[Minee]

How did your strawbales work out? I was wondering if the fertilizers were too much for the young root systems?

[kranlaymen]

How do u dig a hole into it? I don’t think mines broken down enuf maybe

[aliciamarieperry]

How often do you water with that mixture?

[victoriao]

What do you do if your straw bales gets covered with wheat grass?🌾

[kristinbianconi]

HELP! We are trying this for the first time and have followed the process to the letter. This is day 10 and my bales are NOT heating up at all! They are ranging from 58-62 degrees while the air temp is 68. What can we do to be ready to plant in about 3 weeks?

[markrichardson]

Do you compost the straw bales over winter?

[CindaMarks]

Hi Anthony - is it possible to use these strawbales again next year? BTW, I used your tutorial to plant this year and the strawbales provided an awesome harvest (: