Straw Bale Gardening – No Bend, No Dig Productive Vegetable Gardens: Growing Fruit And Vegetables In Straw Or Hay Bales At Home

Straw bale gardening cover“Straw Bale Gardening – No Dig No Bend Productive Vegetable Gardens” is for anyone who wants to learn more about this unusual and interesting way of growing fruits, vegetables and flowers.

However, when you start looking into the subject it can be a little confusing to the newcomer to the field. I wrote this book to clear up this confusion and to provide you with a simple to follow, step-by-step guide to growing delicious fruits and vegetables in bales of straw!

Sounds crazy doesn’t it, yet it is an incredibly easy and productive way of growing vegetables! When you read this book you will get practical methods and tips on how to set up your own straw bale garden and grow plants in them. You’ll be amazed by just how little work is involved once you have set the bales up.


When you read “Straw Bale Gardening – No Dig No Bend Productive Vegetable Gardens” you will discover:

– Why Grow In Straw Bales – discover the many benefits of straw bale gardening and why it is becoming so very popular with gardeners.

– Setting Up Your Straw Bale Garden – learn how to set up your own straw bale garden at home, it’s easier than you may think!

straw bale gardening image– Planting Out Your Bales – how to plant out your bales properly so your plants thrive.

– Supporting Your Plants – the best methods for supporting your plants whilst they grow for maximum productivity.

– Watering Your Straw Bales – a vital step, and learn how to set up your straw bale garden so you don’t have to lift a finger to water it!

– Maintaining Your Straw Bale Garden – tips and advice on the best way to maintain your garden, not that there is a lot to do anyway, but you will find out what needs doing and how to do it.

– Growing Tomatoes In Straw Bales – the most popular vegetable to grow at home and you will learn exactly how to grow them in straw bales.

– The Best Vegetables To Grow In Straw Bales – the different vegetables to grow in bales and the few that just don’t work in this type of gardening.

– Different Straw Bale Garden Layouts – some of the possible layouts you can use and tips on how to ensure the layout benefits your plants.

– What To Do With Leftover Bales – find out exactly how useful the spent bales are and what to do with them.

– Building A Straw Bale Frame – ideas for making your straw bale garden more aesthetically pleasing.

– Tips And Tricks For Growing Successfully – some advice and tips for success in straw bales.

Straw bale gardening is a great way to garden that requires a minimal amount of work and is very easy to maintain. There are a lot of benefits to you from growing in straw bales and it will be much easier on your back and your plants will thrive.

Enjoy your adventure in to straw bale gardening as “Straw Bale Gardening – No Dig No Bend Productive Vegetable Gardens” explains all about this exciting way of gardening. Discover today how straw bale gardening can benefit you!

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How To Care For A Fruit Tree

Growing FruitIf you have just recently planted a new fruit tree, I think it is safe to assume you are not yet an expert on the subject. More fruit trees die in their beginning years due to poor care habits than any disease or pestilence. Therefore it is vital that you understand how to care for trees in a way that will ensure their immediate success as well as future good health.

During the first stages of the tree’s life, the roots, trunk, and branches have not yet fully developed to a self supporting strength. Therefore if your tree is growing fruits, occasionally the combined weight is enough to snap off an entire branch. If this is the case, you should provide external support for your branches – prop them up with boards, or tie them to something at a higher altitude. As long as you can provide your tree the support it needs in these early years, it should grow to be independent in no time at all.

Proper nutrition is not only necessary for the production of healthy fruits, but is also necessary for the tree to survive longer than one season. The exact specifications vary with the area, climate, and type of tree, but I’ve found that there is no better source than a nursery employee. Maybe they’re just eager to sell you the right type of fertilizer, but in my experience they are almost never wrong. Just inform them about the conditions your tree is living in and how healthy it is looking, and they should be able to help you find something to improve the state of your tree.

Lots of people think that the only way to ensure a tree’s healthiness is to provide it insane amounts of water. This is not the case at all. As a matter of fact, giving too much water to a tree can be more harmful than making it go thirsty. At the best it will have a negative effect on the taste of the fruit. But at worst, your entire tree could die and prevent you from ever growing fruit in the future. So do not ever try to solve your problems by giving it lots of water! Solve your tree’s health problems at the root, so to speak. Go to where the problem originates from, and fix that.

If it is too late and you’re already starting to see unhealthy branches that look either diseased or damaged, you should always remove them. If the tree is wasting nutrients by sending them out to the branch that cannot be saved, it is practically throwing away all the nutrients that it could use on the other, healthier branches. As soon as you start to see a branch that is deteriorating or becoming unhealthy, chop it off right away. At the very least, trim down the unhealthy part but leave all the segments that still look like they could continue growing.

Once your tree has started to enter the picking stage, never leave any of the fruit on the ground that is bound to fall. Also, be careful to get every piece off of the tree. Even if it is an ugly looking fruit that you don’t want to keep, you should still pick it and throw it away. Once these fruits begin to rot, they provide a perfect home for unwanted insects or diseases that can transfer to the tree itself. So always remember to rake up these fallen fruits, and prevent yourself a lot of future grief.

Getting a fruit tree and caring for it throughout its life can be a daunting task. It may even seem impossible sometimes to keep track of all the factors that make a tree healthy. But if you just pay attention to the nutrients that your tree needs, you should be on a good path. In addition to nutrients, figure out the precise amount of watering that you should be doing to keep your tree’s thirst quenched without drowning it. Just do all these things, and you will have a great tree that produces delicious fruits.

You can find out more about growing fruit trees in my book, “Growing Fruit : The Complete Guide To Growing Fruit At Home” available in paperback and on the Kindle at Amazon.

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