https://awaytogarden.com/straw-bale-garden-craig-lehoullier/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://awaytogarden.com/straw-bale-garden-craig-lehoullier/comment-page-16/#comment-1401077 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:51:11 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=39330#comment-1401077 I’ve not tried strawbales or talked with anyone here in Iowa who has. I do discuss tomato crops, as we have good years and bad, for me with no sense of why they happen. But this seems a good year to straw-bale some of my tomato plants!

]]> https://awaytogarden.com/straw-bale-garden-craig-lehoullier/comment-page-16/#comment-1340611 Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:50:24 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=39330#comment-1340611 Heck yes, ive been keeping the straw bale idea in the back of my mind for years and i just needed this bit of extra inspiration. Ive started grafting cannabis to maxi fort tomatoes…a secret i havent seen anybody else try, publicly anyway. Ill let my secret out to yall tho (: happy gardening

]]> https://awaytogarden.com/straw-bale-garden-craig-lehoullier/comment-page-16/#comment-1340316 Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:04:44 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=39330#comment-1340316 I have a small, fenced veggie garden, organic of course, but I’m always running out of space and optimum sunlight. I thought I might try 3 bales along the edge of my meadow, without even trying to dig up the ground. Just set the bales on cardboard or something? My whole property is on a ledge, and that field has only 6-8” of soil before I hit clay and gravel.
I have learned so much from your newsletter, Margaret! Thanks!

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