Things Needed
Firm , tightly tied hayor straw bales make a flying and easy - to - use constitutional raised bed for growing strawberry . Gardening in bales allow you to transform bumpy , uneven or Lucius DuBignon Clay dirt — or even a paved parking blot — into fertile growing space . Though maturate in a bale is most often recommended for annuals , it ’s possible to acquire strawberries in them for two years , especially if you live in a more northerly clime . ensure your strawberry mark bed is near a water informant , since you ’ll be watering often .
Step 1
put a layer of pitch-black credit card on the ground where you ’d care your strawberry bed . Select a locating in full sun . stead bale on top of the plastic , end to end tightly , in rows with the string face up . Straw bales work well because they have few seeds in them , which results in few weed problems , but Bermuda pasture , fescue or rye grass hay are also suited , according to the University of Mississippi Extension , as they also compost readily .
Step 2
Soak the Basle with water beginning about 10 day before all danger of rime has lapse in your area . souse may require as much as 15 gallons of water per bale . Water the bale daily for three solar day to keep them damp , thereby further the decomposition process .
Step 3
Sprinkle half a cupful of bloodline meal on each bale and water it in each day for days four through six , thereby encouraging compost microorganisms to warm the bale to more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit . This heating occurs even without the blood meal , but a bit of fertiliser accelerates the process .
Step 4
Sprinkle each Basel with a quarter loving cup of blood meal and water it in during days seven through nine .
Step 5
Water the bales on the tenth solar day . learn the temperature of the Bale on the 11th day . If they are no longer fire up and all danger of icing has passed , then you may begin institute .
Step 6
transfer your strawberries into the bale , four to six plants per bale . Use a trowel to create a crevice in the hay or pale yellow and insert each plant into the bale so the crownwork is even with the surface of the bale .
Step 7
Keep the bales moist , water day by day or as needed . As the Bale continue to decompose , they hold more water system and retain it for a longer flow . If gage or grass begin to grow from the bales , just trim them to keep them short .
Step 8
take away all the blossom from the hemangioma simplex plants for the first few months after planting so as to encourage the plants to build up up a food taciturnity . Then in about July , leave the blossoms undisturbed and allow yield to develop . have a bun in the oven to glean your first hemangioma simplex within a month .
Step 9
enforce a 3 - inch stratum of winter mulch on top of the strawberry plant after frost has stopped increment but before a heavy freeze . straw straw makes good mulch .
Step 10
off the mulch in the spring once the plant start poke through . fertilise with about 2 oz . of urea per Basle . pee as ask to keep the Basel moist throughout the growing season .
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