Bale Temperature Tips from Joel Karsten of StrawBaleGardenClub com

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The temperature of your straw or hay bales will let you know when it's time to plant. Joel Karsten, the pioneer of the Straw Bale Gardens™ method, explains how precisely you need to measure the warmth in your bales, and the most important number to avoid hurting your seedlings at the beginning of the growing season.
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21 окт 2024

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@tammyohlsson7966 3 года назад

Help it’s been 5 days and I can’t get my bales to cool down. Dug a few shallow holes, water daily, still at 140-150? Do I just need patience?

@Strawbalegardens 3 года назад

Yes, the bacteria are doing what bacteria do! They are reproducing like rabbits and that’s what causes the heat. It won’t be too much longer. Hang in there.

@katlero28 2 года назад

I started conditioning my bales and then we had a spat of really cold and wet weather as well as the inability to warm up our water while conditioning. I continued to fertilize through the cold, but now I’m worried. Do I wait and continue conditioning or should they be good to go? Also, bales have been sitting out in the garden space for over a month. Husband opened one up for other purposes and it was slightly slimy inside.

@megamaze00 2 года назад

I’m on the North Shore, and just completed 12 days of conditioning. It’s been pretty warm during the day (~60°) and above 35° at night, but my bales are still COLD inside. The straw within the bale is squishy and has some of the black specks that would indicate decomposition. My concern is that I’ll sew my transplants/seeds, and then the temp in the bales will shoot up, suddenly, and kill my plants. Is that a valid concern??

@Strawbalegardens 2 года назад

The temp may go up, but won’t get above 105 which is the danger zone. If you’ve finished the protocol you an safely plant. No worries about the temp of the bales as long as it is not too hot to plant at the end of the conditioning process.

@scottishnotirish 3 года назад

I made a mistake and put 10 10 10 fertilizer on every fertilizer day,. Will this be okay? Or do I need to redo the garden? Will the runoff be dangerous for the rest of my garden? Will it be dangerous for my family to eat the food raised in the straw bale?

@Strawbalegardens 3 года назад

No worries at all. You May see a bit slower conditioning, and it is possible you may need to add a bit more nitrogen, but for now just keep adding a gallon of water, no more, each day to each bale until you plant. The rest of the garden will love the runoff from the bales. Our goal however is not to have runoff, but rather only apply a gallon per application so nothing runs through. You'll get much better results throughout the season if you limit the dose of water to a gallon but then increase the frequency of watering when plants grow larger and summer heat kicks in. But don't change the dose.