OT: (and anyone interested) found a new garden idea for us to try

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And once you make the investment in the soil all you have to do is nourish the soil after that. If you invest in the worm bins you've got awesome compost and compost tea to add to your soil in subsequent years. Most state extension departments will test your soil and tell you what it needs in the way of fertilizer.

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On Apr 12, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Davinna Reeves wrote:

I just got my container gardens planted yesterday. I made them using plans like Lea Ann had shared with us and bought 1 bag of Organics Choice soil from Home Depot for each of my containers. It really was not that expensive to do it this way.

~DavinnaOn Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:59 AM, carol <pasolucy@...> wrote:

There is a huge difference in a bale of straw and a bale of hay. Straw has been through the combine already and the seed heads taken off of it. There should be very few seeds left on a bale of straw but hay is baled with all of the seed heads on it as food for the animals.

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> > Vickey, straw bale gardening CAN be great-or it can be a nightmare if the straw isn't aged to kill seeds. If not, it can take over your yard, which can also be a good thing if you know how to deal with it when it does. I highly recommend "lasagna" gardening, where you layer soil and newspaper (I use unprinted paper that I get free from end rolls at my local press office-they are happy to give away the rolls too short for a full printing, and there is tons left on them. Many people use printed newspaper, but I don't want toxic soy/metal ink in my soil)  I have done hay bale gardening for potatoes-it worked GREAT...until the seeds from the hay started growing.

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