Learn to Grow a Straw Bale Garden

Use a bale or two in your Straw Bale Garden to grow summer bulbs. Plant them full of dahlia, gladiolus, caladium, calla, canna, tuberous begonia, butterfly ginger or others. As the stems shoot up out of the bales cut the flowers and display them indoors in your best vase. Let the leaves of the bulbs continue to grow until fall in the bale. At the end of the season, you can simply cut the strings on the bales, and pick up your bulbs that have now doubled or tripled in size. Store them over winter and replant again in the spring. An average bale can hold 100 gladiolus bulbs. Using a bale as the "nursery" for your bulbs means NO DIGGING in the fall, less disease, earlier flowers, fewer insects, and best of all NO DIGGING.