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 ...

Tonya Ashworth plants a straw bale garden, and Mr. D. demonstrates how to use garden math. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, garden expert Tonya Ashworth shows how to prepare ...

Terrible garden soil? Or even no soil? No problem. Yes, you can garden! Straw bale gardening uses a bale as the medium in which you plant. You won't have to dig in rocky or hard soil, and it creates ...

Upon retiring in June of last year, one goal was to plant a big, beautiful vegetable garden. With great enthusiasm, I set to work diligently rototilling, planting and fertilizing. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

It’s fall. All those straw bales you see around can be more than decorative. If you want to start gardening and are faced with rocky soil, hard pan, clay or you’re just tired of bending over, you ...

Straw bale gardening expert Nadine Frush will give a short free seminar at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb 25, at General Feed and Seed about how to grow a high-yielding garden with great results using straw ...

Joel Karsten grew up on a Minnesota dairy farm. After earning a horticulture degree at the University of Minnesota, he bought his first house and could hardly wait to sink a tiller into the soil to ...

Question: Recently I saw a straw bale bed at the OSU Extension Garden; can you tell me more about it? - Lynne, Tulsa Answer: Straw bale gardening is a great raised bed option for anyone with poor soil ...

Gardening is one of the most popular hobbies in America. Vegetable gardens offer not only the fun of watching things grow, but also the healthful benefits of fresh produce and control over your ...