{"id":1839,"date":"2010-04-14T16:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2010-04-14T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T21:45:49","slug":"straw-bale-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Straw bale gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-straw-2010-04-14-1.JPG' title='a-straw-2010-04-14-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-straw-2010-04-14-1.JPG' alt='a-straw-2010-04-14-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try straw bale gardening this year. Though my raised beds, filled with compost, have been pretty productive for the past couple of seasons, straw bale gardening seems even less expensive and less hassle. The idea is, you first prepare the bales for 10 or 12 days by keeping them soaked with water and adding fertilizer. Then you slip baby plants (not seeds) into the bales.<\/p>\n<p>Though someday I&#8217;d love to have a thriving all-organic garden, that will be easier after I&#8217;ve had some years to work on the soil. The bales, as they decay into the soil, can&#8217;t help but help.<\/p>\n<p>If you Google for straw bale gardening, I think you&#8217;ll find that the process has been university tested and is university blessed. Here&#8217;s a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinacountry.com\/cgardens\/thismonth\/march06guide\/straw.html\">starting article<\/a>. Don&#8217;t be tempted to buy instructions. There are plenty of free sources of instructions on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Ammonium nitrate, which is what you&#8217;ll find in 34-0-0 or 32-0-0 fertilizer, is powerful stuff. It may be a little harder to find than ordinary 10-10-10 fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-straw-2010-04-14-2.JPG' title='a-straw-2010-04-14-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-straw-2010-04-14-2.JPG' alt='a-straw-2010-04-14-2.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try straw bale gardening this year. Though my raised beds, filled with compost, have been pretty productive for the past couple of seasons, straw bale gardening seems even less expensive and less hassle. The idea is, you first prepare the bales for 10 or 12 days by keeping them soaked with water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Straw bale gardening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}