There's nothing more delightful than growing vegetables in your own backyard, but not everyone has the right soil for doing so. Turns out, there's an even better medium to build a garden on: straw ...

Raised beds make gardening easy and productive, although it takes a bit of effort to get them set up. There are three basic ways to make raised beds: Hill up soil, surround soil with lumber or stone, ...

Bruce and Diane Moriarty are sold on straw-bale gardening. Back in May, I wrote about their foray into this unusual method in which plants are grown within straw bales. It turns out their garden was a ...

EASTHAMPTON — Walking into the Rare Forms workshop, you’ll find items typical of any design build company, such as tools, wooden planks and other construction materials. But the first thing that will ...

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.” ...

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

Slouching like a gardener on a hot summer afternoon, my straw bales are sagging under the weight of their growing load. Four humongous squash plants form a green umbrella with their large leaves, ...

LA SALLE — Bob Selke, a hay hauler for more years than he cares to remember, watched as Glen Fritzler maneuvered two more of the 700-pound bales on the flatbed trailer. The bales of wheat straw would ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS – A lack of space needn’t keep you from a bounty of fresh produce if you turn to straw bales for planting edible gardens. Straw bales take up little space and produce almost anything you can ...

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