First things first: Hay bale gardening bales are most often made of straw. They're a smart, economical version of container gardening, by any name. The post How To Start a Hay Bale Garden appeared ...

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 ...

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Straw bale gardening is an alternative way to vegetable garden. ... Hay bales have grass seed, which can cause a weed problem in your bale garden. Straw is the stem of the grain, ...

Using T-posts and wire to support climbing plants such as tomatoes or cucumbers makes a straw bale garden more productive, says Joel Karsten, author of Straw Bale Gardens Complete. ( Jen Daugherty ...

Two weeks before you plant, you have to get the bales cooking. This means wetting and fertilizing the bales for roughly 10 days to start composting the inner straw. For the first six days, put down 3 ...

In "Stand Up and Garden" ($16.95, Countryman Press), Mary Moss-Sprague says once she discovered straw-bale gardening through a neighbor, her old gardening ways fell by the wayside.

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Use bales of straw, not hay, for gardening, he said. Hay contains weed seeds and usually is too dense for best results. Choose bales held together tightly with twine.

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 ...

Would you like to grow a small, or perhaps even larger, vegetable garden this year but don’t have a good spot? You don’t want to deal with the digging and stooping? Farmer par excellence and ...