About the STRAW BALE GARDENS® method
What is the STRAW BALE GARDENS® method?
The concept of Straw Bale Gardening was pioneered in the 1990's, as they say necessity is the mother of invention. I bought a house and it turned out there was about an inch of topsoil in most of the yard and construction fill with clay and rocks was below that. Since I wanted to have a vegetable garden but I couldn't afford to build raised beds, I decided to try a novel idea. When I was a young kid on our farm we would on occasion have a bale that would break a string and get tossed next to the barn. By the next summer I would notice the nicest, biggest and greenest weeds on the farm were growing out of those decomposing bales. My concept was simple...why not grow vegetables in bales instead of making raised beds?
I started out by doing a whole variety of experiments and eventually perfected the method I trademarked as the STRAW BALE GARDENS® method. I wrote Straw Bale Gardening my first self-published book around 2001, and created a page on Facebook when it was a brand new website. Now after almost twenty years of teaching my method to others, I can attest that if you follow the basic methods I've outlined in my books, you cannot fail. I now have well over a million people in more than 60 countries around the world who are using the Straw Bale method.
I explain the conditioning process in my books in detail, and offer suggestions about what sources of nitrogen might work best for organic growers and for traditional gardeners. Sometimes people struggle to find the right products for conditioning the bales, and this can be frustrating, and sometimes more expensive than it needs to be. For these reasons I have introduced a line of bale conditioning agent, called BaleBuster®, developed over three years as the perfect formula for preparing the bales. BaleBuster's proprietary formula makes the process even easier, and the pricing is very competitive with any other comparable product on the market.
I am located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which is where I have my garden, and where I do all of my testing and research. I have seen Straw Bale Gardening spread all over the world in the past few years and have been around this planet teaching the method to people in many different climates. The good news is that it works well for gardening everywhere.
Join our growing community of Straw Bale Gardeners from around the world and find more resources to guarantee your gardening success at:
www.StrawBaleGardenClub.com
If you would like to reach me, please email me at Joel@StrawBaleGardens.com or visit:
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Or if all else fails, call me at 651-470-2096 and if I'm available we can chat.