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It’s time to order all your free seed catalogs so you have them in time to make your selections for the next growing season! Check the links below for several great free catalogs by mail! Leave a comment below with any great catalogs I may have missed. Thanks for watching! Sign up for the fastest…
I miss summer already. As I look out at the snow falling I day dream back to mid summer when I threw together a wonderful batch of fresh garden salsa. Oh, what a beautiful day it was! Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw Bale…
Losing the main Brew City Garden isn’t going to slow me down one bit! Today we are building a brand new straw bale lasagna garden on a piece of property donated by a fan of the Brew City Gardener channel! Watch as I haul composted straw half way across Milwaukee to provide the foundation for…
Now the growing season is coming to an end we spotlight the results we had for our northern grown okra and our tomatoes this year. Overall, it was an odd weather season but we still pulled off some great results! Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The…
As the straw bale garden season comes to an end it’s time for the final pepper harvest! Join us as we harvest the last of our sweet and hot peppers! Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw Bale Gardener’s Collective” https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGlobalSBGCollective/ Sign up for Rakuten…
Can you grow carrots in a straw bale garden? See for yourself! We have been harvesting carrots as needed all season long but since we have to break the garden down we went ahead and harvested all the carrots we had left. Check out our MASSIVE end of season carrot harvest from the straw bale…
As the Brew City Garden comes down we have to harvest the rest of our hard work! Check out the final squash harvest as we harvest all of our fruits and begin to clean up the straw bale garden. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global…
Hello everyone! Thanks for watching part two of my summer straw bale garden tour. It’s early August and the garden is in full blown production mode! Nature’s bounty is coming in full force! The straw bale garden is doing great and producing a ton of food for our family. Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/…
It’s early August and the garden is in full blown production mode! Nature’s bounty is coming in full force! The straw bale garden is doing great and producing a ton of food for our family. Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw Bale Gardener’s Collective” https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGlobalSBGCollective/ Sign up…
It’s been a crazy weather growing season full of successes and failures. It appears that one of my greatest successes is growing sweet corn. The sweet corn has grown amazingly well in the straw bed and tassels are beginning to bloom! If this outstanding growth continues we are going to have an amazing corn harvest…
There comes a time in your garden when no words can convey the beauty and miracle that it is. In this garden tour we let the garden tell us what it wants to. This is the garden’s story. Thanks for watching. Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw…
The time has finally come! Today we are harvesting the potatoes that I planted in straw. I have always had such great luck growing in straw so I planted potatoes in the newest garden (The Jose the Neighbor Garden). The garden is a first year lasagna style garden where we incorporate straw bale gardening and…
We finally get the definitive results of growing garlic in straw! I have had such good luck growing everything else in straw that thought I would try growing garlic in straw using the no dig, Ruth Stout method. The results of the straw grown garlic is nothing less than incredible. The garlic harvest this year…
This has been a very strange growing season in the Brew City Garden. However, we finally get a decent harvest out of our bale garden. Some things are maturing faster then usual and some things are maturing much slower. I’m just happy to be harvesting my own home grown produce from the bale garden! Thanks…
In this video we take a look at the hybrid in ground garden at the rear of the property. This garden is made up of mostly used straw bales from the Brew City Straw Bale Garden. This garden is the most fertile garden on the property and it’s the easiest to maintain. So far everything…
In this video I discuss why I love gardening at night. Gardening after dark has many advantages and I think it should be on your priority list to maintain the health of your garden and for your sanity. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw…
In this video I discuss growing in hay or straw without conditioning the bales. Does bale gardening without conditioning work? Why? Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group – “The Global Straw Bale Gardener’s Collective” https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGlobalSBGCollective/ Sign up for Rakuten (Ebates) here and earn cash back on your online…
In this episode I take you through a tour of the entire Brew City Garden in early July. The summer has just begun and the garden is beginning ignite with incredible growth! This is the point where it really starts getting good and I want to show you where we are at this point. Thanks…
In this video I give some general guidelines for fertilizing your bale garden. Bale gardening is very forgiving but tend to require a bit more fertilization and supplementation. With this general guide you should be set for a great bale gardening season! Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page!: https://www.facebook.com/brewcitygardener/ Join our Facebook group…
It’s time to take another look at the “Jose The Neighbor Garden”! This is a brand new “lasagna” style garden where we are growing this year’s potato crop “Ruth Stout” style. As you can see these potatoes are growing like crazy! I get the feeling that our potato harvest is going to be monumental! You…
In this episode we take a look at results for some of the seeds we sowed in the straw bale garden. Let’s take a look at the squash and the cucumbers then we will sow our main crop of pole beans for the season. The garden primed and ready to take off!! Thanks for watching!…
Are you ready to start your straw bale garden but you aren’t sure how to find bales for your garden? I have a few tips to help you find bales for your garden or anything else you may need straw bales or hay bales. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe to the “Brew City Gardener” channel…
