Watering a Straw Bale Garden
by
Dan330
So your plan is to water your Straw Bale Garden by hand every day this summer! I applaud your enthusiasm, but reality will soon set in and you’ll discover that despite the best of intentions it isn’t very practical. Using a soaker hose, which is essentially a hose with thousands of tiny pin pricks in it to allow water to leak out along the entire length of the hose, works well, as does a dripper style hose with an emitter ever few inches to regulate the water dosed out per hour to each surrounding plant. Simply run one length of hose down the center of each row of bales, jumping from one row to the next, being careful not to extend too far as the pressure may mean the water stops dripping after about 35-40’. The real magic of this watering system is the automated hose end timer. For more visit our blog: http://livedan330.com/2014/06/20/watering-straw-bale-garden/
Keeping your Straw Bale Garden watered will require a lot of time and dedication or you can use this system.
When your vegetables are ripening they will require much more water than earlier in the season.
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