Straw Bale Gardens Complete, Updated Edition (eBook)

Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding

Joel Karsten (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 2., Second Edition, New Edition
208 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-6524-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This new edition of Straw Bale Gardens Complete is the only book you need to get started with the revolutionary gardening method that has taken the world by storm. Written by JoelKarsten, the originator of Straw Bale Gardening, this exciting update contains detailed, start-to-finish instructions for growing vegetables in strawanywhere, plus many new ideas and projects, including how to set up a greenhouse for less than $100 that allows you to start seeds on top of heat-generating straw bale benches. Whatever your gardening challenge, Straw Bale Gardening holdsthe solution. Have a small or unusual space? Straw Bale Gardeningis perfect for urban, rooftop, andbalcony gardens.Contaminated soil? Planting in straw bales eliminates the problem. Are you inundated by weeds? With straw bales, there is no weeding. The advantages of growing a Straw Bale Gardengo on and on: they require 75 percent less labor, their raised height makes planting easier, they extendthe growing season, preventdisease and insect issues, are portable, hold water well but are impossible to overwater, they create excellent compost, and can be grown 100 percent organically. Imagine building a simple shoulder season seed-starter greenhouse for under $100 and then heating it with six bales of straw. In this all-new section, Karsten explains how you can build his six-week greenhouse, and set all of your seed trays on the nice warm benches inside, made from straw bales. The heat generated during their early decomposition is the entire heat source for the tiny greenhouse. Among the new subjects: Building and heating the six-week greenhouse for less than $100Cultivating mushrooms in straw balesTips and ideas for making your straw bale garden more attractiveHow to make a cold frame with straw balesTrellising projects for growing verticallyAnd much more Assure your success with Straw Bale Gardeningwith instructions and advice direct from the pioneer of the method.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: 101 • All About • Alternative • arid climate • arsenic • avoiding contaminated soil • backyard • bale buster • Basics • Basil • beds • Beginner • Beginner's Guide • big tomatoes • breakthrough • brussels sprouts • build • cabbage • carrots • cattle panel • cilantro • Class • clay soil • Community • compost • compost bin • Conditioning • Container • Course • creative tips • cucumbers • deer problem • Dill • dirtless • driveway • Early Harvest • EASY • epic tomatoes • Essentials • explained • extended growing season • Family • Fertilizer • For Dummies • for seniors • for the disabled • Foundation • fundamentals • gardening layout • greenhouse • Green House • growing plants • Guidelines • hay bail garden • homesteading • how to grow vegetables in • Ideas • inexpensive • Information • Inspiration • Introduction • Kale • lead • learn • less weeding • lettuce • low maintenance • make your own • Mushrooms • no weeding • organic vegetable gardening • over tree roots • Peas • Peppers • Plant • plant bed • Planting • Planting Seeds • poly house • Polyhouse • poor soil • potatoes • pumpkin • rabbit issues • raised bed • sandy soil • SBG • school • seedling • Seedlings • seeds • seed starter greenhouse • shoulder season • Skills • small space • Spring • Squash • Step-by-step • strawbale • straw bale garden method • strawberries • Student • techniques • terraced • TIPS • tomatoes • Trellis • trellis wire system • Urban • urban gardeners • Watermelon • Weed control • wheel chair • wheelchair accessible • with kids
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-6524-5 / 0760365245
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-6524-3 / 9780760365243