Straw bale gardens complete : breakthrough vegetable gardening method / Joel Karsten.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Cool Springs Press, 2015Description: 176 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1591869072
- 9781591869078
- Breakthrough vegetable gardening method
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 635 K18 | Available | 33111007965268 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Take your straw bale gardening to the next level--in more places, with new products, and even sometimes skipping the straw entirely--with Straw Bale Gardens Complete .
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!
Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.
SBGS in small, urban and unusual spaces -- Straw -- Planning your stray bale garden -- Making your own bales -- Conditioning the bales -- Organic straw bale gardens -- Planting sees and seedlings -- Straw bale greenhouse -- Growing your straw bale garden -- SBGS and water -- Harvest time -- What remains is gold -- Plant profiles.
"Just a couple of years ago almost no one in the gardening world had heard about Straw Bale Gardening. Today, it is the hottest new method for veggie growing, with tens of thousands of dedicated followers across the globe. ... Straw Bale Gardens: Get high yields; Never need weeding; Do not require soil; Extend the growing season by weeks; Can be conventional or 100 percent organic: Your choice; Can go anywhere--even balconies and driveways"-- Pg. [4] of cover.