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Garden is growing amazing. I’ve already given so much to friends. I love growing a garden but I need to get better at keeping up on the harvesting so it can stay healthy and grow more.
SWEET POTATO SLIPS PLANTED:
This is the first time I’ve grown my own sweet potato slips to plant in the garden.…
I apologize for taking so long to update you on the garden. I took some videos this time.
STRAW BALE GARDEN:
MAIN GARDEN:
SWEET POTATO SLIPS – STRAWBERRY TOWER:
Just a quick snapshot of the garden before and after. June isn’t even over yet and it looks beautiful!
It has been raining for a few days then this happened yesterday…
SNOW!
Today was a beautiful day. So I finally got some more stuff done in the garden.
FENCE:
In the rain and cold my honey helped me put the chicken wire fence up.…
So in my last post I believe I mentioned I didn’t think one soaker hose going down the middle of the bales would be efficient enough to water the plants . . . I just upgraded!!
A simple “y” fitting, another 100′ of soaker hose, a coupler and I’m satisfied!…
Things are moving along slowly but it is still cooler temps here in MT and raining. Also since I have so many bales to water at once I’m just using my well water which is cold. During the conditioning process it mentions to use warm water to help break down the straw faster.…
Today was windy & cold but sunny so I spent the whole day outside in the garden.
I broke open my first bag of organic nitrogen “Milorganite” to start the conditioning process of the straw bales.
I am using the conditioning guidelines from the milorganite website…
Day One to Six
On day one, spread fertilizer over the top of the bale.…
So this year I’m going to try straw bale gardening on the outside of my fenced in garden. I’m going to grow the bigger plants hoping the deer can’t eat all of them. Like broccoli, cauliflower, radish all my winter and summer squash, carrots, melons, potatoes Etc.…
