Hay Bale Garden Project : Part One

Slacksteaders Hay Bale Garden Project

_{Part One}

The First 12 Bales

A few weeks back I entered a contest run by one of the founders of the Steemit Homesteaders Slack Group

@greenacrehome. I won the 50 SBD with this entry where I had planed to make the prize part of the funds towards an experimental hay bale garden to grow as much food as possible over the long growing season here in Australia.

Yesterday I made the first purchase of 12 bales of mulch hay from our regular guy. His property is about 25 minutes out of town so I thought I would be nice to start off the project with some photo's of the countryside in my local area.

On this short trip we saw three wallabies, one kangaroo and a Wedgetail Eagle. Though I didn't get any photographs of them. It's been very dry and unseasonably hot here so the wildlife graze on the road verge because it's the freshest grass for miles.

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_{The project begins, first 12 bales @ $3.00AUD per bale.}

_{Heading out for a nice drive with my Dad and Daughter, trailer bringing up the rear.}

_{This little creek crossing just before the paved road ends and we go onto gravel}

_{No rain makes for a very sedate little creek, looking south.}

_{Looking north on the same creek, had to scurry as a car was coming!}

_{I love this photo, dirt road to nowhere?}

_{Even the farm dam water levels are well down, Pelicans and Ducks and even a couple Brolga}

_{Loaded up and ready to head back to town}

I've now got to make sure I've got some level ground to get them setup and composting down. These 12 will be down the bottom of the garden as the original site is still not getting enough light and I might need to prune the mango tree before it will be any use at all.

To get them nice and hot I've got a bio tea ready and I'm trying to get some coffee grounds or other high nitrogen catalyst to really get them cooking up fast and hot. But that will be in the next part. I'll try to get a post about this project out twice a week while the setup is being done at least.

I hope that you will enjoy this journey with me and for my northern hemisphere friends, you are welcome to share my season with me through out your winter months. If there's any specific plant you'd like me to grow drop a comment or find me on Slack. How about this for an Idea if you would like to shoot me ONE SBD for the Seeds, I'll name the plant after you and for the rest of the season will include your plant in every garden update! Sounds like a fun idea right?

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