{"id":138,"date":"2013-08-15T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ext100.wsu.edu\/lewis\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2016-03-24T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:43:17","slug":"vegetables","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/agriculture\/plants\/vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Have a small space to work with or soil that is shall we say, not ideal?<\/h3>\n<p>Well, have we got a gardening method for you! Using a common hay bale, you too can be the veggie gardener extraordinaire! Follow a few simple steps and voila; you are on your way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cru.cahe.wsu.edu\/CEPublications\/FS109E\/FS109E.pdf\">Straw Bale Gardening Brochure (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>What is a straw bale garden?<\/h4>\n<p>A straw or hay bale garden is a gardening method used for raising vegetables, herbs, and flowers directly on a bale. Straw or hay bales from alfalfa, wheat, oats, rye, or other cereals are suitable for making a garden bed. Straw bales are preferable over hay because hay bales contain more weed and grass seeds. The bale should be tight and held together with 2-3 strands of plastic baling twine\u2014preferably made from a biodegradable material such as jute and sisal (Figure 1). Biodegradable twines should be positioned parallel to the ground to avoid their hastened decomposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Have a small space to work with or soil that is shall we say, not ideal?<\/h3>\n<p>Well, have we got a gardening method for you! Using a common hay bale, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/agriculture\/plants\/vegetables\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/2799"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}