Straw Bale Gardening: Difference between revisions

  Also, if you are planning on using Straw Bales and you want to go the ORGANIC route, get your straw bales in the late fall to early winter, and put them in place then check around for folks with horses, cattle or even chickens, a lot of folks with these animals would be glad for you to clean out their stalls for free.  Of course you need a trailer or pickup to haul it.  Collect the manure and then place it directly on top of your straw bales in the late fall/early winter and let nature happen.  The rains will slowly wash the nitrogen from the manure into and through the bales, and by planting time the following Spring, your bales should be ready to go.  If money is an option this is a way to lower the cost.  Of course you wait til late winter or early Spring to start your conditioning of your bales, then you'll need to use a more aggressive method to compose/prep your bale.