People are Hand Baling

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The Hay Bale REVOLUTION has begun.

Sign of an Aging Bale

Mushrooms are a sign that the bale is decomposing and can be used for mulch or for growing a plant. The Bale will not grow weeds but it does grow mushrooms. Young bales are too dry for most gardening plants. I have found age bales are the best to use.

I use bales from the borders to the garden itself.

Always keep a bale aging.

Scything my Yard

Here is a row I recently scythed. The tall grasses will make a nice bale. You can make a bale in a baler or a tote or box. I have a video on making a bale in a tote.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u1hM74V4yk

The taller scythed grasses will keep birds from stealing it and using it for their nests.

Look at how much finer the mowed grass looks:




You can still use mowed grasses for a bale. After aging the bales, they will become matted. However, I still prefer scythed grasses.

Bales have many uses. I'm going to use some bales to keep my watermelon from touching the damp ground. Take a look:





I stake the vine using a large tie-down. Cut sharp on one end and stick it through the bale.



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Thanks to all of you. My book has this rankng:


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Straw Bale Gardening Sham

I was looking at some picture of straw bale gardens. The proponents of straw bale gardening claim that they are growing in a straw bale alone. They claim they use only spoiled straw bales treated with lots of fertilizer. But what they don't tell you is that they are not growing in a bale alone but through a bale. The straw bale decomposes and the plant roots extend through the bales into the ground where plants normally grow.

What a sham that people pay over twenty dollars for books that promises something new but instead are all deception.

In my books I tell you exactly what goes on in bale gardening. In fact, I help the plant by adding soil to the decomposing bale. If you don't believe me then try growing your bale on hard cement without soil and see if your plant survives.

I believe in hay bale gardening that uses common sense and a sensible approach in growing the garden of your dreams.

Question for Larry Zoro

Question of the Week: I thought this was a how-to book on using the straw bales to plant a garden in. But in this case the bales are just the border around the planting bed.

You have to fill the center with soil that may have weed seeds that will still germinate along with any seeds you might plant. NOT GOOD!

Using borders around you planting bed is an idea that I still use.  

The rotting or spoiling of hay bales draws the earthworms and makes an habitat for your garden. The other day I saw the largest lizard from under a bale. Think of how many insects he must eat? When the bales get old I use them for mulch.

When you use a lot of mulch you do not get very many weeds. Mulch from hay is a very good idea only if it had be scythed. Short strands of grass birds will use for their nests and take it away. Scythed grass is long and does not remove from your garden.

As you will find, bales are not just a fancy border. They have many uses. Chapter three talks about using them for windbreaks.

Join the hay bale revolution and stop buying expensive straw bales. Make your own and enjoy the harvest of organic and fresh produce.

Hay baler plans:

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Essential-Tools-Bale-Gardener-ebook/dp/B015453ZJI

Is it Hard to Find Hay Bales?

I made it so simple to make hay bales. I made a video that shows you can make them out of a tote. Best of all I have a website that sells the plans www.aaahomebaler.webs.com

What is even easier is buying my book for only $3.99. 

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Essential-Tools-Bale-Gardener-ebook/dp/B015453ZJI

I have the plans for a baler right inside the kindle book. So you have two choices to get the plans for the baler: my website or Amazon Kindle Books. You can't even buy a bale for the price of this inexpensive book.

When you make very inexpensive bales you can begin to experiment. Look at this carrot patch protected from wind and those pesky varmints. When you bales get old you can use the rich spoiled hay mulch to keep your plants moist and healthy.

Hay Bale Gardening Going Strong

I'm still gardening the way I taught in my first book on "Hay Bale Gardening." 

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In Chapter three I mention using bales as a windbreaker. It really works. I usually get broken plants during a storm but not now.

I line up my bales around my garden and when the bales get old and spoiled, I break them apart and use it for mulch.  Mulch keeps the ground moist and in hot weather I hardly need to water.

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
MAKING HAY BALE RAISED BEDS
Chapter 2
TYPES OF BALES
Chapter 3
WIND BREAKING
Chapter 4
THE DISINTEGRATING COMPOST BALES
Chapter 5
DON'T BAIL OUT WHEN YOU SEE THEM VARMINTS
Chapter 6
GROWING IN BALES
Chapter 7
STUMP REMOVAL OR STUMP HIDING?
Chapter 8
THOSE PESKY GARDEN INSECTS
Chapter 9
TO SCYTHE OR NOT TO SCYTHE?
CONCLUSION

This book is a good little read and it's only 99 cents.

Nicotiana Alata

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It Snowed Egg Shells in my Garden

I heard somewhere that egg shells are great for your garden. I know that slugs and snails hate traveling on them and some birds like eating them. Perhaps some of that calcium gets absorbed into the ground I do not know.

I keep all my egg shells in a shoebox on my kitchen floor.

I get macho with them and break them up with a sledgehammer.

I then literally toss handfuls of them in my small garden.

It looks like it snowed egg shells. I hope they do some good.

I BECAME A WHEATGRASS FAN

The God factor in gardening is when God gives you wisdom or an idea that improves your gardening. God is wisdom and today I learned that wheatgrass or young straw has some valuable uses.

Today I planted some more carrots. I increased my bed size.

I had to cut up some aged hay from a bale and sprinkled it on top of my carrot seeds for a covering that fosters quick growth. Light mulch does wonders in helping seeds germinate and come up quickly. The problem with hay mulch, however, is that it is too dense with leaves, debris, and thick grasses.

Solution: I juice wheatgrass everyday. Why not grow wheatgrass for your plants? Look at those nice delicate blades of grass:

  

When I grow my wheatgrass in buckets I trim them when I make juice. The wheatgrass keeps on growing like grass in your yard that had been cut. Why not grow an extra bucket or two and harvest the cut grass? As you keep harvesting the grass you can dry it out in the hot sun or perhaps on a rack so air can get on all side. The mulch that you will obtain from your newly planted seeds will be like green gold or heavenly mulch.