straw bales

[hobgoblin]

went to Wally World today and they are(were) tryn to get rid of the straw bales they sale for Halloween decorations..$1.00 per bale.    yes we grabbed some.  no seed heads in them..       

now i need to get off my lazy arse and fire up the tiller.

[Ogre]

Is there any other use for hay?  I might head over there to get some if there is something i can do that's useful.

[Gridiron Brewer]

Horses love eating hay.

[Ogre]

Ok...well like a project I could do around the house.  Sadly, I haven't any horses.

[BeerDaddy]

I use straw bales to grow vegetables on, put the straw bales in place where you want them, soak them throughly with water until they swell, sprinkle a light dusting of fine dirt on top of them.

Plant your veggie seeds on top of each bale and water like any other garden. The seeds will germinate and will grow down into each bale. Then after the summer is up, break them up and till them into the garden or put them into a mulch pit.

Makes a real pretty raised bed garden........

See youtube video below:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59ZnlSDQGA

[BeerDaddy]

You can also make a straw bale home that is Force 5 storm rated, see the following youtube video belowL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbORHvveTY

We have been lied to by the banking and mortgage conglomerates so bad that no one builds there own home anymore.

Thus thru the use of Debt, we become slaves to a evil system that was not what the founding fathers had envisioned. 

[Ogre]

This is so friggin' cool!  I kinda wish I had done it.