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Joel Karsten - Straw Bale Gardens Complete Breakthrough Vegetable Gardening Method - All-New Information On Urban & Small Spaces, Organics, Saving Water - Make Your Own Bales With or Without Straw

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Take your straw bale gardening to the next level - in more places, with new products, and even, sometimes, skipping the straw!
The reception and enthusiasm for straw bale gardening, introduced in 2013, has proved revolutionary in vegetable growing. Why? Because the bold promises in the book are kept: grow vegetables anywhere, earlier in the year, with no weeding. Gardeners everywhere are excited. Straw bale gardening works! In just the short amount of time that has passed, the gardening world and Joel Karsten himself have learned even more about how to apply this method in just about any environment: on a city balcony, in a rocky outpost, in a desert, and even in the tundra of Alaska.
Straw Bale Gardens Complete contains all of the original information that has set the gardening world on fire. But it also goes much deeper, with nearly 50 pages of all-new advice and photos on subjects such as growing in a tight urban setting, making your straw bale garden completely organic, and using new fertilizers and conditioning products. There is even information on using straw bale techniques to grow veggies in other organic media for anyone who has a hard time finding straw.
Fans of Straw Bale Gardens will not want to miss adding Straw Bale Gardens Complete to their gardening library. There is, literally, nothing else like it!

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BREAKTHROUGH VEGETABLE GARDENING METHOD JOEL KARSTEN Contents - photo 1

BREAKTHROUGH VEGETABLE GARDENING METHOD

JOEL KARSTEN

Contents Introduction IT SEEMS LIKE IVE TOLD THE STORY of Straw Bale - photo 2

Contents
Introduction
IT SEEMS LIKE IVE TOLD THE STORY of Straw Bale Gardening a million times over - photo 3

IT SEEMS LIKE IVE TOLD THE STORY of Straw Bale Gardening a million times over the years, to audiences big and small all over the world. But I never get tired of it. Its a good story and it keeps getting better, in large part because my method is young and always evolving and improving. Thats also the reason we chose to come out with a new edition of my book so soon after the first Straw Bale Gardens was published just a couple of years ago. The tens of thousands of gardeners whove decided to give my SBG technique a try are an enthusiastic group, and I get an enormous amount of direct feedback and many, many questions. I listen, and Im constantly working to expand the techniques in ways that address the most common concerns people have. This has resulted in some very exciting additions to the information and advice I have offered before. The basics havent changed at all, but I think youll find several new ideas that make the SBG method more accessible and more practical for even more people.

When folks hear me describe Straw Bale Gardening for the first time, the reaction is fairly predictable. At first, they wonder how it works and they ask questions like How to you get the dirt into the bales? But then there is a moment where the light goes on and they understand that you dont use dirt at all: its the straw itself that feeds the plants. I love the way you can see the sudden look of understanding when people smile and nod and even shake their heads in a kind of amazement. It might be what I love most about teaching the SBG method.

Once people get it, the questions usually come in waves. Where do you get the bales? Can you make an organic SBG? What about planting seeds? Can I put an SBG on my deck or driveway? Does it really work? In this second edition of my book Ive done my best to provide new answers and solutions. Even if you are one of the more than 100,000 people who have read the first book cover to cover, I think youll find some great new information in Straw Bale Gardens Complete that will make your SBG experience even more productive and efficient.

Joel

The Straw Bale Gardening Story II

Everyone has heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention, and I must agree. It was just after graduating from college, and hours after buying my first house, that I discovered my new home was surrounded with construction fill. Instead of the fertile farmland I grew up on, I found only clay, gravel, rocks, and old bricks that had been graded, compacted, and frosted with an inch of blackish topsoil. Anyone with even a rudimentary working knowledge of growing plants could decipher the cards Id been dealt. Planting anything in this soil would require a backhoe, a couple of months with a pick axe, and several truck-loads of good quality compost to amend the concrete into a state where it might actually produce something. Rescuing this soil would be very expensive, so for a young, new homeowner with college loans to pay, it wasnt an option.

The Author as a farmboy working hard and dreaming up new ways of doing things - photo 4

The Author as a farmboy, working hard and dreaming up new ways of doing things.

While I didnt have much money, I did have a fresh Bachelor of Science in Horticulture degree from the University of Minnesota, as well as some distinct memories of growing up on a small farm. There, we always seemed to have a few broken bales of straw that would get piled up along the side of the barn. After a few months of decomposing, the biggest, greenest, healthiest thistles on the whole farm would spring up from these bales. I wondered, even as a young boy, why the healthiest looking weeds were always the ones growing out of these old bales, but as a recent horticulture student I now knew. In my exhaustive study of soils, composting, plant physiology, and all things horticulture, I found that most mysteries, including why weeds grow in bales, can be explained by sciencemicrobial soil science, to be exact. The old bales, I deduced, were composting inside, creating brand new soil. This provided a phenomenal growing environment for weeds. So why, then, couldnt I use bales of straw to grow vegetables? I decided to explore the question and Ill say it again: necessity is the mother of invention. If I had been able to come up with $200 to build raised beds instead, you might well be reading a mystery novel right now, instead of this book called Straw Bale Gardens Complete.

The system I now like to call SBG wasnt an instant success, unless you consider 15 years of experimenting and perfecting a method to be instant success. Its not as simple as it might seem to some onlookers and many would-be bale-gardeners who dont bother to learn the right method. Well, you just buy a bale of straw and dig out the inside and put in a little dirt and then drop in the plants, they conclude, and Shazam! You have a garden. Not exactly. Ive seen what happens when its done this way, and its a disaster. The plants starve to death and the dirt brings in weed seeds and disease we are trying to avoid.

One of the test gardens in my own backyard Over the years some of my neighbors - photo 5

One of the test gardens in my own backyard. Over the years some of my neighbors may have wondered about my experiments, and its hard to blame them.

The truth is that my method isnt really very complicated. The simplicity of the method, and the foolproof techniques Ive developed, make vegetable gardening about as simple as following a recipe for baking cookies. You can deviate a little bit here and there, but if you want to be successful, make sure you adhere to the basics, or youll end up with a garden that only disappoints.

Because the straw bale generates heat as the straw decomposes a Straw Bale - photo 6

Because the straw bale generates heat as the straw decomposes, a Straw Bale Garden can get a head start in planting and yield ripe tomatoes weeks before the other gardens in town.

Step One: Set aside the skepticism

The fact is, growing vegetables in straw bales is a very radical idea to traditional gardeners and even folks who have tried other out-of-the-ground strategies, like container gardening and raised bed gardening. You naturally encounter some serious skepticism when you tell these people that youve invented a method that: takes 75 percent less time; uses less water; involves less bending; requires less pesticide and no weeding; and, on top of that, can be done anywhere, even on a rooftop without using any soil at all. Then, add that it can be done on a shoestring budget, and you cant blame them if it sounds too good to be true.

Thats impossiblevegetables require nutrientsnutrients are only available in the soil, so how can crops be as productive or as nutritious if they are not grown in the soil? is a typical objection I hear. Once they listen to my explanation, read the book or hear my seminar, however, the skepticism subsides a bit. The real proof, though, is in the pudding. They need to try it for themselves, and this is where the real foundation of the Straw Bale Gardening movement has been built.

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