The bale is the garden Put it on your balcony or path if you want to Just like a normal vegetable garden, your straw bale plants need sun; Hay and straw are different things Straw is simply the stalk of grains, so after wheat (or rice or rye or whatever) is harvested, farmers will often cut and bale the remaining stalks as straw It is low in nutrients as straw is basically just carbon But if the farmer is good, it can also be fairly low in weed seed Here are 6 secrets for growing a successful hay bale garden Hay bale (or straw bale) gardening is a unique gardening method which uses hay or straw bales as a planting medium Instead of planting your garden in soil, you will instead plant your vegetables, flowers, and herbs in bales of hay or straw This method of gardening has several
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