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SUPER EASY Hay Bale Raised Bed Gardening Ideas / Front Yard Garden Growing Lettuce Greens Salad Bar Zone 5
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Salads are one of our favorite appetizers, and what could be better than walking outside on a fall day and heading over to your oasis of a salad bar, right there in the front yarden and picking a fresh and delicious salad right out of the hay bale.

This year we are growing some of our food in hay bales, for the first time ever. This hay bale has been fertilized, and we have added some potting mix to it, and now our salad greens are growing so quickly!

Initially, we planted squash in this bale, and while the plant looked good for a while, it never really produced much fruit. One of the main reasons for this is that we did not prepare the bale well enough, as it was a first year hay bale.

We learned, over the course of this season, that the initial treatment of the bale/bale preparation is essential to seeing growing success. So, we added more fertilizer and more potting soil to the bale before we planted these salad greens, and the results are clear. They love this spot to grow in. And as a bonus, the rabbits can’t reach the veggies.

And, because we are now one season in with this bale, we will be able to grow root crops in it next year, much more easily.

We hope you enjoy and are inspired by the creativity of growing in a bale of hay, and maybe give it a try on your own.

We hope you enjoy!

Summary
In this video you will:
1) See how to grow vegetables in a bale of hay.
2) See how we are growing red mustard greens, rocket, lettuce, and red rubine brussels sprouts.
3) Be inspired to try to grow in unique mediums to increase your potential harvest.
4) Be inspired to grow, grow, grow!

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Published on September 26, 2020

19 Comments

  3. Kim's Gardens

    Great salad bar. I tried a hay bale once for a tomato 🍅. It was a disaster. But I can't grow veggies anyway!

  4. Hickorycroft Farm

    Great video. We will have to try this. We have a bunch of 'aged' bales kicking around. We do not have a lot of luck with lettuce.

  8. Dan Permaculture Food Forest

    I really the idea of growing in a Straw Bale /Hay Bale
    The purple mustard is a beautiful veggie …
    I just ordered some radishes
    Great information as always … Thank you

  9. Buying Thyme

    Was it hay or straw though? My guess since all you grew was lettuce is that it was straw 😝 last year my friend offered to bring me home “straw bales” and it was definitely more hay then straw. Sprouted everywhere.

  11. Grow Somethin' with Jeff

    Nice salad there. Very good selection. Not sure if you have seen CBs Greenhouse and gardens channel but they do hay bale gardening also. Great information! Thanks for sharing the video!

  17. Geeky Gardens

    That is an interesting idea my friend and I've seen a number of folks use similar techniques. But if I put a bale of hay on my ground it will instantly become a fire ant motel. Nice salad though.

  18. AnnWith APlan

    Looking good! I left home for a few weeks. Don't know what I'll come home to. My papaya & mango plants were brought into the shower, but the lettuces and sweet potatoes were left outside. Looking forward to seeing how they did when I get back.

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