Planting the Bales

Now that the bales are conditioned and the temperature has dropped I was very excited to actually get started planting.  This gauge worked ok but next year, I'll be ready with a longer one to get to the middle of the bales. Planting these bales is some of the easiest planting I've ever done.  I just used a spade to gently pry an opening and popped the plants in.  Easy Peasy!  I used some potting soil on top of one bale to hold seeds in place but other than that, it was all done in about 30 min.  So far so good!

 

I decided to put Strawberries at the ends of two of the bales.
 

I'm happy to get this yellow summer squash in.  I know... I'm going to have to fight the squash borers.

This is the Cucumber row and I'll be training them up this trellis.  There are a couple of bean plants in there as well.  They are supposed to grow well together.

These are the Roma Tomatoes I grew from seed.  This is my first successful seed transplant ever!  I put down some


I think this bale is probably going to suffer because it's going to get less sun.  I have laid down about 2" of potting soil on the top to sew carrots.  I have never been successful with carrots but I'm going to try again because Charles loves them.  Planted a couple of strawberries at the end of this bale too.

Now that the bales are planted, it's time to get on with planting the container garden!