Free Straw Bale Gardening Seminar

Please join us at General Feed and Seed on Saturday, March 25th at 11 a.m. for Nadine’s Straw Bale Gardening demonstration.

Grow-it-yourself and backyard veggie garden wizard, Nadine Frush, is teaching a straw bale gardening workshop. Whether you want perfect tomatoes but only have a cement patio of a garden, or you want to easily get rid of a lawn and feed the family, straw bale gardens gets you great results.

Straw bale gardening is a popular form of container gardening that uses bales of straw as the ‘containers.’ According to Nadine, “Straw bale gardening allows people to get a maximum return on their home garden production and say goodbye to hours of soil preparation, weeding, over-watering, bending, and garden-chomping critters!”

“With straw bales gardens, you don’t have to worry about having great soil. You can also set up the bales in your backyard or on your deck — or even on a cement patio. And, there’s no additional expense to buy large containers. The bales are the container and the soil.”

Preparing a straw bale garden requires ‘conditioning’ the bales for a few weeks before bales can be planted. This essential step is accomplished, in part, by adding nitrogen that accelerates decomposition of the bale.

Nadine explained, “The conditioning process creates an optimum, nutrient-rich rooting environment that is moist and warm for seedlings. This is the perfect time of year to start your straw bale garden for plants that thrive on cold weather such as peas, kale,lettuce and bulbs. There is also be a wide selection of vegetable and herb seedlings, organic fertilizer and of course, straw bales available from General Feed and Seed to give your garden a head start.”

General Feed & Seed is located at 1900 B Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95065. Phone number is 831-476-5344 Seating is limited, so please arrive early Call General Feed & Seed at 831-476-5344. Start getting great results TODAY!