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Straw Bale Garden Project

Making a Custom Soaker Hose for the Straw Bale Garden

May 31, 2010 Gardening in Idaho

Day 17 – Transplanting into a Straw Bale Garden
Day 20 – Some days one just wakes up and realizes the possibility of doing things one has never done before.  Like making custom lengths of soaker hose.  Laugh if you must, but it was a welcome revelation to me.  So, on one recent trip to [...]

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Transplanting into a Straw Bale Garden

May 25, 2010 Gardening in Idaho

Day 1 – Chronicles of a Straw Bale Garden
Day 5 – If You Give a Gardener a Straw Bale
Day 8 and gopher tales
Day  17 – Sunday I put my first transplants into my straw bale garden.  The good news is that two days later they appear happy and growing.  The bad news is that getting [...]

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Large Rocks Enhance Straw Bale Garden on Day 8 and Tales of Gopher Grasping

May 16, 2010 Gardening in Idaho

Day 1 – Chronicles of a Straw Bale Garden
Day 5 – If You Give a Gardener a Straw Bale
Day 8
I am living in the heyday of strong, energetic, employment seeking young men in my family.  They are at an age where they are quite happy to go around moving large rocks just to show that [...]

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