Growing Potatoes In Straw Bales
Place your bales in an area that gets at least six to eight hours of full sun a day.
Growing potatoes in straw bales. Fill the trench with 6 inches of straw. Eight hours is better if possible. To avoid problems colorado state university suggests always using weed free clean straw bales.
Pull out straw and compost decomposed straw to find the potatoes. At that point the plant is done growing and you can start harvesting the potatoes. As the potatoes at the bottom of the trench grow they ll grow upward through the straw.
Written by joel karsten. Potato harvest from bales is easy with no fork or shovel simply cut the strings and kick over the bales and pick up the potatoes. When the potato plants start dying back wait 2 to 3 weeks.
Fertilize the sweet potatoes in the straw bales about every one to two weeks with a diluted complete fertilizer liquid fish emulsion or compost tea. Saturate the bales with water until water runs freely from the bottom of the bale. No marks on the potatoes from the forks or shovels so they will store well unblemished.
Full day sun is preferred. Once your potato plants start flowering you can harvest the older potatoes at the bottom of the straw bale. You ll never grow potatoes any other way again.
Bale gardening growing potatoes hay bale gardening hay gardening potato potato growing straw bale. Because the potatoes grow inside the hay bale the bale can be positioned in areas where the soil is unsuitable for gardening or even on top of paved areas. Monitor the plants for signs of nutrient.
Place with the cut ends of the straw facing up twine or wire on the sides.
