Straw Bale Gardens Author: Joel Karsten | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BUTPJQK | Format: EPUB
Straw Bale Gardens Description
You’ll find a bumper crop of vegetable gardening books on the shelves today, but it is a very rare title that actually contains new information.
Straw Bale Gardens teaches gardening in a way that isn’t only new but is thoroughly innovative and revolutionary to home gardening. It solves every impediment today’s home gardeners face: bad soil, weeds, a short growing season, watering problems, limited garden space, and even physical difficulty working at ground level. Developed and pioneered by author and garden expert Joel Karsten, straw bale gardens create their own growing medium and heat source so you can get an earlier start. It couldn’t be simpler or more effective: all you need is a few bales of straw, some fertilizer, and some seeds or plants, and you can create a weedless vegetable garden anywhere—even in your driveway.< Karsten’s step-by-step guide offers all the information you need to make your own straw bale garden today. In this lushly photographed volume, Karsten shares all of the secrets he has developed over years of teaching eager students the miracle of straw bale gardening. You’ll learn how to locate and choose straw bales, then how to condition and plant them for the earliest possible start. You’ll master Karsten’s methods for combating plant pests and maximizing space by applying the principles of vertical gardening to his straw bales. Whether it’s seedlings or seeds, veggies or flowers, there is practically no limit to the plant varieties that will prosper in a straw bale garden—and with Karsten’s breakthrough gardening guide, you can do it all yourself.
- File Size: 17772 KB
- Print Length: 144 pages
- Publisher: Cool Springs Press; First edition (March 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BUTPJQK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,066 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Horticulture > Vegetables - #11
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Horticulture > Techniques - #36
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The reviews here seem to be mostly "plan to, want to, expect to".
I'll make this short and sweet...I put in two bales this year as a trial and the results were not good...there were incredibly good!!!
I put in four tomatoes, three peppers, a zucchini, and a lemon cucumber on two bales, consciously trying to stress the concept to see what it would deliver.
I will never garden any other way! The plants all grew rapidly and have been exuberantly productive. In addition, for the first time in 25 years living in this location (San Francisco Peninsula), I have not had to fight the slugs and snails! One tried to climb the bale but gave up. What a relief to be freed of that struggle.
We're waiting for the huge crop of tomatoes to ripen while we harvest zucchini, cucumbers, and peppers.
I wholeheartedly recommend Mr. Karsten's book!
By Larry L. Kistler
I will be the first to admit that I am a traditional gardener ... soil, raised beds etc. ... but now after reading Straw Bale gardens, I am excited to give this technique a try.
The book is educational from the intro where he gives a brief history of who he is and who inspired him, through the end. Not only will you learn the straw bale gardening method, but also a few other things along the way.
If you were considering jumping into straw bale gardening, then you NEED this book!
By Michael C. Podlesny
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