Straw Bale Gardens Complete, Updated Edition: Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding - Couverture souple

Karsten, Joel

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ISBN 10 : 0760365237 ISBN 13 : 9780760365236

Editeur : Cool Springs Press, 2019

Synopsis

This updated edition of Straw Bale Gardens Complete is the only book you need to get started with the revolutionary gardening method that has taken the world by storm.

Written by Joel Karsten, the originator of Straw Bale Gardening, this exciting update contains detailed, start-to-finish instructions for growing vegetables in straw anywhere, plus many new ideas and projects, including how to set up a greenhouse for less than $100 that allows you to start seeds on top of heat-generating straw bale benches.

Whatever your gardening challenge, Straw Bale Gardening holds the solution. Have a small or unusual space? Straw Bale Gardening is perfect for urban, rooftop, and balcony gardens. Contaminated soil? Planting in straw bales eliminates the problem. Are you inundated by weeds? With straw bales, there is no weeding. The advantages of growing a Straw Bale Garden go on and on: they require 75 percent less labor, their raised height makes planting easier, they extend the growing season, prevent disease and insect issues, are portable, hold water well but are impossible to overwater, they create excellent compost, and can be grown 100 percent organically.
 
Imagine building a simple shoulder season seed-starter greenhouse for under $100 and then heating it with six bales of straw. In this all-new section, Karsten explains how you can build his six-week greenhouse, and set all of your seed trays on the nice warm benches inside, made from straw bales. The heat generated during their early decomposition is the entire heat source for the tiny greenhouse.

Among the new subjects:
 

• Building and heating the six-week greenhouse for less than $100
• Cultivating mushrooms in straw bales
• Tips and ideas for making your straw bale garden more attractive
• How to make a cold frame with straw bales
• Trellising projects for growing vertically
• And much more

Assure your success with Straw Bale Gardening with instructions and advice direct from the pioneer of the method.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joel Karsten developed the straw bale gardening method more than ten years ago. As interest grew, he became one of the most in-demand garden lecturers in the country. A pioneer and an entrepreneur, he has been featured in the New York Times, national television and radio, and dozens of other major media outlets. He has a degree in horticulture form the University of Minnesota and currently resides in Roseville, Minnesota.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Straw Bale Gardens Complete, Updated Edition is an exciting new version of the book that has taught half a million people how to grow vegetables in ordinary bales of straw. It includes all-new material on how to set up a six-week greenhouse for under $100, which will allow seed starting on top of benches made from bales.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cool Springs Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0760365237
• ISBN 13: 9780760365236
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible