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The bales do cool off. We are at that point now where they are just big cheap planter boxes. The dark you see is that same layer of chicken compost I put on them at the start.

The garden looks completely ready to plant. It is certainly producing lots of healthy looking wheat grass. While I was initially disheartened by the amount of sprouting wheat seed, I have had a change of heart. The height of the garden makes weeding quick and easy. Since I'm planting only a...

Lettuce does very well here. We stay pretty cool except for August/September. It's been unseasonably warm lately though. Nearly 70 degrees the other day. It's encouraging me to plant - hopefully there won't be another freeze.

BTW, it's very well aged manure. Practically compost.

The layer of chicken manure on top seems as thick as when I put it down and I was thinking it might insulate seeds for long enough - the heat should go away in a few days. I planted some mini romaine lettuce in a bale and carrots in another. I figured they were cheap seeds so its worth trying.

My bales are hot today! They are also sprouting a bit of wheat grass but I would imagine the inner seeds will get cooked. I think I will start planting in about a week.

The garden ended up being 5 feet smaller then I had laid out cardboard for. I found some blueberry bushes today for 6.99 each. I'm going to set up a bed for them using cinder blocks and compost/peat blend on that area to the right. I've not noticed the bales getting hot but they do look like...

I hope I'm not being overly ambitious with the root veges but here's what will be planted: Winter Squash:red kuri, spaghetti, sweet potato acorn, delicata, butternut Small sugar pumpkin Yellow zucchini 5 types of tomatoes 5 types of onions 5 types of lettuce Spinach Dwarf kale Carrots, dragon...

I'm also in zone 8 but in Oregon. Hay is very expensive here too but straw is cheap as long as you get it from farmers and not the feedstore.

I used the ammonium because it was recommended on several sites for the conditioning phase.

I was thinking of planting marigolds in the sides as a bug deterrent. I got them cheap by buying them from a farm and loading them myself. They are nice clean looking wheat straw bales.

I've high hopes for it. I was originally going to do a lasagna (layered) garden and the cardboard was the first step for that. I'm pretty sure that will eliminate the fight against the grass for at least this year. It sounds like the conditioning stage is the key to success so I'm just going...

Our garden area has poor soil and stubborn pasture grasses. I decided to try a straw bale garden this year to hopefully improve the soil. I laid down 2 layers of cardboard over the area and put 35 bales down on it in a comb pattern. The row all the way to the left is a single row for...