Straw Bale Garden Part V: Growing Vegetables
...e bales are growing. I got a late start on planting–I put in the tomatoes, squash and basil in mid May/Early June–just in time for the cloudy, cool weather we have here in early summer. Check out the difference between the tomato I planted in a bale on the left, compared with a tomato in one of my raised beds. The tomato in the bale is doing a lot better. The bales are home to organisms that support healthy vegetables: mushrooms and worms. When I...