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

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 ...

Squash, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers are the vegetables of choice to grow in hay bales but other vegetables will grow as well including lettuce, green beans, and cabbage. Avoid root crops and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typically used as Halloween decorations to display winter squash and pumpkins, straw bales can also be used to grow those vegetables in ... avoid hay, which contains seeds and, as we know, is ...