Anything that grows in soil should grow in a hay bale garden. If you’re new to gardening, try planting seedlings, such as tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, from a local garden center or home store.

Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of “Straw Bale Gardens” (Cool Springs Press, 2013). The idea behind straw-bale ...

Hay is a grass or other crop grown for use as feed or mulch and the whole plant, including the seed head is harvested. Preparing bales for planting Preparation of bales plays a key role in the ...

Planting in straw bales is a good idea because they usually drain exceptionally well. To start, buy oat straw bales, not grass and make sure they are straw and not hay which has many seeds.

In 2012, Joel Karsten wrote a book called "Straw Bale Gardening" that spurred a new way of raising vegetables by literally planting them in bales of straw. This method certainly hasn't replaced ...

You may want to pick up wheat straw bales to keep for your vegetable garden next year. Gardeners like Bea Waggener of Newport News are discovering the advantages of gardening in bales, especially ...

Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of "Straw Bale Gardens" (Cool Springs Press, 2013) and guru of one of this year's ...

Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of "Straw Bale Gardens" (Cool Springs Press, 2013) and guru of one of this year's ...

Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of “Straw Bale Gardens” (Cool Springs Press, 2013) ...

Bad soil? Not enough soil? Maybe even no soil? Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of "Straw Bale Gardens" (Cool Springs ...