[IMG] On the left and right are 6 ft stakes. In the middle is a tobacco stick. As you can see even the 6 ft stakes were too short for the...
zookeeper, glad hear you're going to try a few bales this year. Don't hold it against me if you get hooked! :-) Kent
[IMG] 1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, 4 ... Anyone remember that from childhood when picking sides etc.? Here's today's shot of my potato...
Bale Gardening would be a good project for FFA, 4-H, or a Science Club at school. I had a couple of retirement homes doing a small bale garden as...
mslusk: I don't know of anything from first hand experience that shouldn't do OK with bale gardening. Other bale gardeners said they tried carrots...
[IMG] I had a little fun last year and made an arch trellis for some tomatoes using the same concrete wire I used for the in-line trellis. I...
[IMG] Here's a good example of my 1st time bale garden. Notice the cukes running off the end and the grass growing up in the vines. Not...
[IMG] Here's an example of the bales sprouting. This is no problem. I'll grab a handful and take a steak knife and just cut it off. Takes no...
Ken, 10-4 on the hydroponic garden analogy. You grow plants in just about anything if you get the watering & feeding components down. The bales...
[IMG] I recommend using these green stretch ties that you can readily purchase at most any garden center when you tie up your plants,...
[IMG] My Daddy's (Fred Rogers) bale garden from Willow Spring, NC, right down the road from you folks at 4042. Daddy has had several major...
[IMG] Okra. Man, did these babies take off. I'm 6 ft tall. They produced a ton of okra. I had 4 sets in this bale, which is probably a...
[IMG] Collards I put these in the fall after the cukes and squash bit the dust. 2 collard sets/bale. Still got them in the freezer.
[IMG] Peppers Be prepared to stake peppers, or anything that doesn't run naturally. The bales get softer as the summer goes by and the...
[IMG] Cukes and squash in a double row. The double row gives you a nice little table top for the cukes to run on and then they'll drape over...
[IMG] Tomatoes I recommend a 4x4 post, 10 ft long. Put the post 2 ft in the ground. I used concrete reinforcing wire for my trellis. It's 5...
no reply necessary; I think I've got this uploading/posting pics thing worked out. KR
[IMG] My bale garden set up for this year; about 65 bales. 3 rows on the left are for tomatoes. A trellis is alot better than staking. 2...
Appreciate the prompt replies, but one last question, I hope: Do you put all the photo links in 1 post or 1 link/post? KR
10-4, thanks, MissyPrissy KR
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