Gardening
Information about straw bale gardening.
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It’s Watermelon Season … How to Slice a Watermelon
I don’t know where I saw this but it has been several years ago. I have been using this technique to cut watermelon since reading it. I thought I would share it with you today. Here is how I slice a watermelon. First cut the watermelon into two equal halves. Place the watermelon cut side down onto your cutting board. Using a sharp knife slice down, removing the outside skin of the watermelon. When all of the exterior skin is removed, clean up the watermelon by slicing off all the white parts (I don’t know the technical name for it.) Place the peeled watermelon, cut side down, on a large…
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So, You’re Intigued by Straw Bale Gardening?
Straw Bale Gardening has gathered some momentum in the last couple of years. David and I started straw bale gardening in 2017 after our friends Nick and Tauna had such great success with theirs. Our main purpose for trying straw bale gardening was the tomatoes. You just can’t buy flavorful tomatoes in the grocery stores anymore and going to the farmers market at 7:00 AM on a Saturday morning was just not an option for us. We live nearly 40 miles from the nearest farmers market (over 30 miles round trip to the nearest grocery store). So, we decided to give it a try last year. We started with 12…
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Our Second Year of Straw Bale Gardening
I don’t know if we can technically call it “straw bale” gardening as this year we decided to use Bermuda grass bales. As we continue with our garden this year I will keep you posted on what we are doing and what we have learned along the way. If you want an easy way to garden without all that back breaking digging and weeding and general “dirty” work, then straw bale gardening is perfect for you. Also, if you don’t have the room for a traditional garden this is also perfect. We follow Joel Karsten’s techinques. He wrote the book (literally) on straw bale gardening. Here is the link to…
