Cattle cloth?

Using DEF with a hose sprayer works great and no work DEF is made from Urea, you have to adjust your quantity of DEF because it only about 67% urea.

Update 2 years later. Still nothing wants to grow food wise. Managed to get some flowers to struggle through it. Bales only broke down about 1/2 way. Still problems with pillbugs but slowly mitigating that issue (sluggo and soapy water spraying). Presumably the straw I bought was POISONED with herbicide at the field. Only reason I can figure that most things won't grow in it.

How can I get them from you

Urea… human pee. It’s free!

How do you prepaid the straw

I have wanted to try this approach. The only thing I was concerned about was the bales setting on fire. Has that ever been an issue? Great video!

Hello your explanations are very detailed and clear. You know how to teach things and that's awesome

Straw bale was the best garden I ever had in 50 years of gardening.

Wonderful info, I have not tried potatoes yet. I wondered if you had a long growing season if you could stack another bale on top and keep growing up?

Hi Tracy, enjoying your channel! I am down in NW Alabama. I have gotten great ideas from you so far...thanks! New to gardeninf in clay, so my first bales last year were great.

I loved the idea to anchor the tomato cages with the wood headers....saw that on one of your videos. Thank you

You commented that you live in the city but your background is all country. I, however, didn’t watch the entire video before posting so maybe I misunderstood

Looks like way too much work.

just wondering. are you doing the wide side of the bale or the narrow side of the bale which holds and accepts much more water.

Very informative video and I appreciate the effort. I did a hay bale garden two years ago in a new area of my garden. Straw is very scarce in my locale so I used hay and didn’t have many weeds at all. My plan was to put the hay bale garden in a place where I was going to have raised beds in the future. After completing the growing season and the following winter, the hay bales had composted down beautifully and I just built the raised beds around them and I had a great start on filling them with the composted hay material. Now, whenever I have a raised bed that the soil is getting low, I’ll do a hay bale garden for the season so it will fill up next season.

Are these wheat straw bales?

Love your set up. Just found you & subscribed.😊

I was thinking of trying this method for sweet potatoes this year, I have a question though. Do you use any lime on the bails to speed this process up?

What can you add to the straw bales to stop flies from laying their eggs in it? This drove me crazy last year when I did the straw bale gardening for the first time. I ended up using an insecticide, but then the birds were eating the larvae and one of our resident bluebirds must have eaten one and we found her dead next to the straw bale. I'm wondering if I should add an insecticide when I add the fertilizer.

I have a good idea. How about using some manure, crushed Biochar and weed water with some yeast.

Love your setup!!! 🎉

Are these straw bales or hay bales ?

Thanks

Hello from Australia, grateful I found you. About to commence my first hay bale garden beds. Thank you for educating me on preparing the bale. Do you have a video to share beyond day 6 of prep? You also mentioned 12 days in video 1, is it advised to not plant for 12 days and prep the bales for 12 days? thank you for your time

very cool.

have you tried to substitute the nitrogen feed with your chicken compost?

thanks for sharing

That looks awesome, thanks for sharing.

excellent! Next year!

Great information, Tracy. Would love ti see mire of your straw bale planting video's.

Thank you! This is a very informative video. I have never planted in bales before, but I'm very interested.

I see you have some flowers planted in your bale. Can you plant annual flowers, such as vinca vine, impatiens, petunias?

This video answered all of my questions. Thanks for the great demo!

Can use 30-10-10 plant food to season bale? Have been able to find urea.

What is cattle cloth? Maybe I missed that somewhere. Thanks.

TP tubes at base slow them down

I couldn't see waisting all that straw either. I'm so glad I found this video because it's just what I wanted to know! Thank you!

I conditioned my bales per your instruction and I planted tomatoes last week. I looked last night, most looked pretty good. I just now looked and several have black stuff on them and are looking bad. I think all of these mushrooms had something to do with it. There are new crops of hundreds of mushrooms every morning and the mostly seem to have black caps. Any ideas??

Good job

Can you let the bales compost naturally over time with out using fertilizer? If so for how long?

Lol. Your dog rolling around in the hay 😂

Thank you for sharing this information with us

The way you laid out your garden is brilliant!

Great tip for the bucket of water & the pitcher, thank you!! 😊

Good enough for her to get raised beds this will be perfect always wanted to try it

Thank you for this video I wanted to try looks a lot easier than I thought it was gonna be

So glad to have found you. I'm wanting to use bails of hay. This video was wonderful. Thank you. So glad I found you.

SOME FOLKS WARN US TO LET BALES KOOL INSIDE A WEEK OR SO...AS TO LET TEMPERATURE DROP AS TOO HOT WOULD KILL YOUNG PLANTS??? WHAT HAS YOUR EXPERIENCE BEEN IF ANY WITH TOO HOT HEAT??? THANKS, YOUR EXPLANATION IS WONDERFUL ❤

I think I will put down sand and gravel between my rows to try to keep my boots clean