You're Going to Love These Tips For Growing Veggies in a Hay Bale Garden originally appeared on Parade Home & Garden. Soil's great, but there are so many creative ways to grow plants without it. Think ...

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 ...

Local gardeners are experimenting with straw bales, taking advantage of the internal composting to help their garden grow. As a little boy growing up on a Minnesota farm, Joel Karsten wondered why the ...

Do you want to grow your own vegetables, but have minimal garden space, poor or heavy clay soil, or limited financial resources? Do you manage or want to begin a school or community garden, but need ...

For about $5 to $10 you can pick up a bale of straw at your local hardware store or nursery. That means you can have a lot of fun without threshing your wallet. Once your bale has served its purpose, ...

So it's time to plant and you haven't even tilled your garden yet, or maybe don't even have a garden space to till. Straw bales can offer a temporary planting option to see you through the season.

You’ve all heard, “Hay is for horses.” Some people think that it is also great for growing plants. It isn’t. Technically, the bales to garden with are straw bales, such as wheat or barley, with little ...

Last fall, Ocean Drive Garden Club member Michelle Locke was awed by Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden’s autumn display. As she watched children play in a hay maze, she thought of her own ...

You may want to pick up wheat-straw bales to keep for your vegetable garden next year. Gardeners like Bea Waggener of Newport News are discovering the advantages of gardening in bales, especially when ...

LEE — Volunteer gardeners have found a novel way to provide fresh produce to the needy. At the inaugural Lee Downtown Community Garden behind St. Mary's Church on Academy Street, volunteers have ...

Straw bale gardening? What will they think of next? Actually, straw bale/mortar home construction is a big industry. In the garden, straw bales are big, too. Straw (not hay) bale gardening is a ...

In early June, our neighbor leaned over our chain-link fence, watched my husband for a second, then asked, “What, exactly, are you doing?” Rob was using a hose to soak four bales of hay, which he’d ...