World Organic News - Mrjonmoore - Conservation Farming, Permaculture, Organic Gardening, Organic Farming, Climate Change.

Links No Dirt Gardening! http://wp.me/s5Cqpo-55805 A "Natural" Experiment: GMO farming. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ewG **** This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 27th of March 2017. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with post from farmer406: No Dirt? No problem: Strawbale Gardening. Quote: The concept of growing food from a bale of straw was odd at first until I thought it through. Commercial growers have been using alternative growing mediums for years, so why not scale it down for the backyard Do-It-Yourselfer? It is, of course, different than growing in dirt. End quote. The idea is to line up a row of straw bales into garden beds. Turn the bales so as to have the stems facing vertically and the bale twine on the sides. This allows for better water retention and the twine doesn’t rot as quickly, usually lasting the entire first season. The bales are then wetted and some sort of fertiliser added to the top. This done to start the decomposition process. A fish and or kelp based fertiliser