Straw bales for raised beds - May 10th, 2006 at 05:58 AM
I saw mention of useing these and was wondering if I could get some more information on how to go about starting and the maintance factor of this? What kind of soil should it be backfilled with? How offen do the bales have to be replaced? Do you need to drive rebar or anything down in the bale? Lots of questions and will probbaly have more. Looking at doing this in a semi shaded area where we have a concrete wall on one side and looking at useing the bales for the other three side as well as making a free standing bed in a sunnier location for some veggies. Going to have to do a temperory bed soon as well have a bunch of hosta lilys and several other plants I need to dig up and move they used to be around the base of a pool but we took the pool out so now have a bunch of plants to find somewhere we can put them while we fix the former pool area as a raised bed garden. So looking at the straw bales as both a long term and short term for raised beds. So wondering what the maintance and other factors to keep in mind would be? And how do they handle a area that gets wet frequently? Whenit rains the area gets pretty wet at times.