It's surprisingly effective, turning the bale into a kind of natural planter. The Garden Family on YouTube offers a great ...

There’s another way to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and lots of other vegetables. One option you may not have considered yet is a hay bale garden, More than 20 years ago, Straw Bale ...

Straw bale gardening is an alternative way to vegetable garden ... suffer from aches and pains when bending or kneeling. Avoid hay bales. Hay bales have grass seed, which can cause a weed problem ...

When I moved into my new Philadelphia rowhouse, I was determined to grow the vegetable garden that had ... there’s a chance your straw (or, worse, hay that was sold as straw) contains its own seed. If ...

This summer, with my garden deconstructed amid renovations, I decided to experiment with a temporary measure: growing ... bales for my beds, but any kind of straw works fine. Just avoid hay ...

What started as a dry summer and a borrowed baler has transformed into a growing hay business shipping across the country for ...

Droughts across the great plains are bumping up prices for alfalfa, or hay, leading to record profits. Alfalfa isn't typically seen as a cash crop around the QCA. Most farmers that grow the ...