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 ...

What Is Straw Bale Gardening? Straw bale gardening is an easy way to grow a raised vegetable garden without using any other kind of soil. Seeds are planted in bales that are treated with an organic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

I am excited to report that my straw bale garden yielded some very nice vegetables! If you read Part I of my article, you know that I decided on straw bale gardening so that the garden soil could be ...

Michigan in spring is a bit of a tease. The first few days of warm weather has plant people champing at the bit to get out and start the garden. But we all know there’s still a few cold nights left ...

Straw mulch is great for gardens. It locks in moisture, smothers weeds, and feeds plants. But it might also cause one of the ...

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 ...