With straw-bale gardening, you grow your fresh herbs, flowers, root crops and garden favorites in nothing more than a bale of straw. Like lasagna gardening, which I discussed last week ...

Get started gardening in driveway planters. Here are easy straw bale gardening instructions to add some food and flowers to your sunny driveway. I was smitten with my driveway last summer.

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

A straw bale garden is a great solution if you are not ... but bromeliads usually send up a flower stalk in the center and they only bloom once. So when that flower stalk dies, that's it.

Straw bale gardening combines container gardening and raised-bed gardening into one green-thumb package. You can grow many vegetables, fruits and flowers in a straw bale garden, Trinklein said.

Do not let the bale dry out. Apply fertilizer and amendments throughout the growing season as you would to garden plants. Although many flowers and vegetables grow well in straw bales, those with ...

Do not let the bale dry out. Apply fertilizer and amendments throughout the growing season as you would to garden plants. Although many flowers and vegetables grow well in straw bales, those with ...

“Straw bale gardening is simply a different type of ... for sizes so you don’t end up with a tiny bale meant to accent a flower bouquet or loose straw meant for animal bedding or mulch.

Learn about other no-dig methods using straw bales and lasagna gardening basics ... cucumbers, herbs, flowers — whatever transplants you can buy will work. If your soil is hopelessly hard ...

Straw makes an attractive mulch in the vegetable garden, but I think it looks out of place in landscapes and flower gardens. A normal sized bale of straw will cover about a ten by ten foot area.

Do not let the bale dry out. Apply fertilizer and amendments throughout the growing season as you would to garden plants. Although many flowers and vegetables grow well in straw bales, those with ...