Straw Bale Gardening<<<
I have used this method, when the Bermuda grass was so thick, from many years of growth and I wanted vegetables.
Maybe about 1965 Organic Gardening had an article on it, said it was used every 7th year in Israel to allow the land to lie fallow and recharge.
As I recall, I put manure on it and started the watering for several days. Let the goodies from the manure mix down in the hay, then added a layer of peat moss and topped that with sand and planted, as I recall it all grew.
Bill took scrap lumber and built a simple box around the bales and that helped to keep the moisture in them.
All your methods in the article are good ways to garden..
Yep, Southwest calls it Bermuda grass - here we call it Wire Grass. If you ever plow any of it, your plow will ‘sing’ like an overly stretched wire. Hard as Heck to kill.
We never used to have any till during a drought in the 50’s and we brought in some western hay for the livestock to survive. They said it was prime Bermuda Grass. Hate it!