Have you seen pictures of luscious tomato plants growing in straw bales and wondered if this was something you should try? With multiple straw bale gardening groups on social media with a combined following of tens of thousands of people, there’s clearly interest in this method.
Small Farm Canada contributor Helen Lammers-Helps investigates the ins and outs of strawbale gardening with horticulturalists, master gardeners and gardeners with years of strawbale gardening experience, in the summer issue of Small Farm Canada magazine, on sale now.
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