Where to Get a Straw Bale and Different Types
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If you’re sold on the straw bale garden method, it’s time to get a bale...but where? And are there different types? What about different materials? All of these questions and more are answered in today’s show.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined |
| 0:18.0 | again by Joel Karsden. Joel is the pioneer The Straw Vale |
| 0:21.0 | Gardening method and as you know we've been talking quite a bit about it |
| 0:24.4 | but let's say you've listened to the last few episodes and you're like okay let's go I want to start |
| 0:29.9 | my first |
| 0:35.0 | and condition and how do we get someone from zero to maybe their first condition and |
| 0:39.2 | planted out bail jul |
| 0:41.0 | well the first thing you need to do is find bales of straw. So I get that question a lot. |
| 0:47.9 | People are looking for straw bales. My first suggestion is if you know a farmer, if you have a relative who's a farmer or you know a |
| 0:56.4 | cousin of a cousin who's a farmer, get in touch with that person even if they don't have |
| 1:01.0 | straw bales, very often a farmer knows all the other farmers in the county or around |
| 1:06.2 | the area and he'll know who grew oats or who grew wheat and who therefore is probably |
| 1:12.2 | going to have |
| 1:13.0 | gonna have straw bales available. |
| 1:14.8 | You'll be surprised, however, when you become a straw bale gardener, |
| 1:18.0 | how often you'll start seeing straw bales where you didn't see them before. |
| 1:22.2 | And I tell people this and they kind of poo poo it until all of a sudden it's Christmas time and they're |
| 1:27.8 | driving by the local church. Everybody else is seeing a nativity scene and what they're |
| 1:32.0 | seeing is a pile of bales and they're wondering |
| 1:33.8 | what's going to happen to those bales after the Christmas nativity scene comes down. |
| 1:38.6 | So you start thinking about straw bales when you have a need for them. Of course your garden centers are going to carry |
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