Growing Your Garden in a Bale of Hay!

If you have poor soil quality, or limited space for gardening, consider growing your garden in a bale of hay. Growing vegetables in a hay bale has many advantages. One of the most desirable is that the hay bale is up off the ground and there is no crawling around on your hands and knees.

The bale may have a few seeds that sprout up after a week or two; a few tugs or cuts and the weeds are gone. Setting the hay bale on a tarp or cardboard, will keep the weeds from growing up around the hay bale.

After keeping the hay bale moist for several days, and if the temperature is warm, the hay bale will begin to decompose and heat up. It is at this point you should consider which organic topsoil or fertilizer you are going to use.

Separate a place in the hay where you intend to place your plant. Add the organic topsoil and fertilizer that you have chosen into the hole. Place the plant in the hole and fill it to the top with more topsoil and fertilizer. Water the bale as needed; you don’t want it ever to dry out. In the beginning, check the bale several times each day to make sure it is staying moist.

Tall growing vegetables, such as tomatoes or okra, will need to have a trellis or some other apparatus to cling to for support. The roots of the vegetables are not really rooted firmly in the bales and the weight of the fruit may cause the plant to pull out easily.

After harvesting your hay bale garden, reuse the hay bales for mulch in another part of the yard or garden, or add it to the compost pile as fertilizer for next years planting season.

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