Unfortunately very few of the plants we started survived being the first couple weeks due to critters or pests of some sort in our straw bale garden. Next year when I put together the permanent garden, I'll be taking better precautions.
Our tomato plants decided to grow over the block wall and it worked very well. It didn't require cages or staking, though there just wasn't a lot of sun in this location, and I didn't fertilize or water.
The peppers did ok, fighting off some pest or critter. We got reasonable harvests.
In both cases harvest were less that what were used to.
We also had an herb / onion bed I hastily started with help from my daughter's. Now I have to remember what we planted and harvest it.
Overall I give the straw bale gardening high marks. It worked pretty darn well in this crappy location as the plant sizes show. I may use it as a basis for first year gardens in the future.
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