Get started gardening in driveway planters. Here are easy straw bale gardening instructions to add some food and flowers to your sunny driveway. I was smitten with my driveway last summer. For several ...

Straw Bale Gardening is a convenient, economical method that uses bales of straw as raised beds to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. Last year’s bales are ready to plant. New bales must be ...

Some gardening tasks (despite being good exercise) are just not very enjoyable. Digging in red clay, weeding and bending over to pick bush beans come to mind as three seasonal “pains.” Enter growing ...

Straw bale gardens are becoming popular with growers plagued with poor soil or limited garden space, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Straw bale gardening combines ...

Planting vegetables and herbs into the sides of straw bales and calling it a garden is one of the many trends in food gardening right now. Straw bale gardening is unlikely to save you any money and is ...

Bad soil? Not enough soil? Maybe even no soil? Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of "Straw Bale Gardens" (Cool Springs Press, ...

Craig LeHoullier gathers tomatoes from his vines in his lush container and straw bale garden at his Raleigh home in 2015. LeHoullier just published his second book “Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales.” ...

Bad soil? Not enough soil? Maybe even no soil? Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of “Straw Bale Gardens” (Cool Springs Press, ...

Bad soil? Not enough soil? Maybe even no soil? Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of “Straw Bale Gardens” (Cool Springs Press, ...