Growing in Straw Bales & Containers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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When Craig started gardening tomatoes, he learned to maximize his space by growing them in containers, and straw bales. In this episode, he reveals his secrets for successful bale and container tomatoes, and turns to the old adage “what you put in, you get out.”Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3VLiXbGBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4eUKUXaBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4f5VXx5EGHomesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3xLRzCmLearn More: How to Grow Epic Tomatoes in Grow BagsConnect With Craig LeHoullier:Craig LeHoullier, PhD (chemistry), advisor for tomatoes to the Seed Savers Exchange, co-leader of the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project, author of Epic Tomatoes and Growing Vegetables in Strawbales (Storey publishing), approaching his 40th year of gardening. Instagram Website YouTube Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I first started gardening, many of you think it was at the old epic gardening house, which was in the front yard in urban San Diego.
0:10.0	It's actually not true. It was in a townhouse in Central San Diego with no light with a north-facing covered
0:17.5	outdoor sort of patio. So basically no light whatsoever. So I had to go indoors in containers and that is the topic of today's show with Craig
0:25.9	lehullier, my so-called godfather tomatoes, but I know you have a different name probably for yourself, Craig, but you know know something that you've done is you
0:33.3	grow so many tomatoes and and many of these are in containers or straw bales which
0:38.8	brings us to kind of today's topic. Right it was all born out of necessity because in our house in Raleigh, the garden that I hand dug, the
0:47.6	tulip poplars and the loblolly pines grew to the point where the only place where the sun shone was in the driveway.
0:54.3	So I developed an expertise in container gardening first and realized if you can grow it in the
0:58.9	ground, you can grow it in a container as long as you understand the dynamics of the plant and
1:03.8	what its needs are. And then when Story asked me to write the book on
1:07.5	Straw Bail Gardening, I fell totally in love with that as well. So now all of my
1:11.8	gardens are a mix of straw bales and
1:14.3	containers because we're gardening on our septic field in our backyard. It gets
1:18.5	full sun, but planting above the ground allows us to have a full garden where I really couldn't dig it.
1:26.4	You get equivalent yields.
1:29.5	One of the real advantages is you get enhanced disease handling issues because you can start with
1:36.3	sterile planting use, you can start with a straw bale which is it's just a block of
1:41.7	cellulose
1:43.5	that you have to actually crank up
1:45.9	to get it breaking down.
1:47.8	I think the last interesting thing
1:49.3	to say about Straw Bell Garding
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