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straw bale rooftop garden

poncirusguy6b452xx

9 years ago

last modified: 9 years ago

If my roof counts for a balcony. This is what I am trying this year

Straw bale gardening

6b Steve

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Signy Frances (zone 7a / NoVa)
9 years ago
How's it going now that the season is starting up?
poncirusguy6b452xx thanked Signy Frances (zone 7a / NoVa)
poncirusguy6b452xx
Original Author
9 years ago
There are a lot of hay seeds in the straw bails. My snap peas are up with another planting to break surface. My first planting failed.

the big picture of straw bail garden on my rooftop.

hay seed sprouts

Kale in the soil between the straw bails and the rooftop's guard rail.

second planting of snap peas.

I bielive that the straw should have been set up late august and allowed to season over the end of summer, fall and winter before planting this spring.

6b Steve
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