Straw!

Yesterday we went out and picked up a straw bale for the porch garden. At the farm supply store the fellow brought the bale around on a fork lift and immediately headed towards the SUV belonging to another customer. We pointed out that the VW New (Biodiesel) Beetle was ours and his eyes grew very wide. He was very surprised that we were going to put it in the back of the Beetle. It fit just fine.
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Back home we stashed the bale in our storage closet and started mulching the Red Norland potatoes. The plan with all of the potatoes is to keep building up the straw so that the potatoes grow up vertically in the cage. We’ll be wrapping the cages as they grow to contain the straw (and potatoes). At least that’s the plan. It’ll be interesting to see how the experiment works out. We’ll also use the straw to mulch around the other plants.
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I also planted more plants today. I put in seeds for the zucchini, yellow squash, basil, oregano and more strawberries.