Repurpose your Halloween hay bales for vegetable gardening fun! LSU AgCenter horticulturist Will Afton demonstrates how to make a hay bale garden! | LSU AgCenter

Straw bale gardens offer: ✅ Better soil for gardeners with poor native soil ✅ Comfortable access to plants without a lot of bending or kneeling ✅ Fewer pest problems Read more about this effective gardening style >> https://hg.tv/2WSnezC #OutdoorMore | HGTV

Hay Bale Planter 👨🏼‍🌾🌾 A simple hay bale can make a great low cost vegetable planter, or even a whole garden growing bed if placed side by side, and they are pretty simple to make. 😊🌱 They just need a little prep to speed up decomposition, so I start to soak them with a natural fertiliser such as seaweed or nettle at least a week prior to planting them up, which also adds extra fertility for the plants once they root into them. 🌾🍅🥒 Then, I simply make holes in the bales around three tim

Straw Bale Gardening is SUPER EASY and you can do it almost anywhere! Just get yourself a bag of BaleBuster and a bale of straw or hay ... and watch the "magic" happen in your very own Straw Bale Garden. BaleBuster is available now at StrawBaleGardenSHOP.com ❤ | Learn to Grow a Straw Bale Garden