Biggest Straw Bale Gardening Mistakes
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Like many growing methods, a few crucial mistakes can handicap your results. Joel Karsten explains the most common ones you’ll run into with straw bales.
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| 0:00.0 | What is of everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:17.0 | podcast. My name is Kevin Espiritu and I am joined by Joel Carston, the pioneer |
| 0:22.1 | of the Straw Vale Gardening method. |
| 0:23.4 | Now yesterday we talked about how to start your very first Straw Vale Garden, |
| 0:28.4 | including the many different things even besides Straw Bales that you can use to get it started. Now what are some of the |
| 0:35.8 | mistakes and Joel I know we've talked about the number one mistake which is |
| 0:38.8 | overwatering so maybe we start there and then move on to the other ones? |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, overwatering is number one I'll get we start there and then move on to some of the other ones? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, overwatering is number one. |
| 0:44.6 | I'll get calls from people and they'll say, |
| 0:46.6 | you know, I'm struggling with my straw bale garden this year. |
| 0:49.8 | The last couple of years has been great. |
| 0:51.3 | Now this year we even install the |
| 0:52.8 | irrigation system and it doesn't seem like it's doing as well and the first thing I |
| 0:57.0 | think of is they're overwatering so I'll ask them how many bales do you have? |
| 1:00.6 | I have 10 bales and I'll say well how long are you watering? |
| 1:03.7 | They'll say oh only 30 minutes and then we do the math together and I say you know |
| 1:08.5 | your spigots giving you two gallons a minute and you're watering for 30 |
| 1:12.0 | minutes that's 60 gallons of water on 10 bales. |
| 1:16.9 | Now it starts to put it in perspective and they know that that first gallon of water is enough |
| 1:21.3 | to saturate the bale. The next five gallons they're |
| 1:24.0 | putting on top that's washing through and out the bottom of the bale and it's |
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