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 ...

Straw bale gardens are becoming popular with growers plagued with poor soil or limited garden space, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Straw bale gardening ...

When shopping for bales, avoid hay, which contains seeds and, as we know, is for horses. Straw is for gardening, and most of its seeds have been harvested, so there shouldn’t be many (or any ...

Tonya Ashworth plants a straw bale garden, and Mr. D. demonstrates how to use garden math. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, garden expert Tonya Ashworth shows how to ...

If you want to take a straw bale planter to the next level, you can actually plant an entire garden within straw bales. Hay bale gardening is great for those with poor soil or limited space ...

Create an easy, affordable, no-dig garden bed from topsoil or planting mix bags. Learn about other no-dig methods using straw bales and lasagna gardening basics. Is this the year you finally start ...

When shopping for bales, avoid hay, which contains seeds and, as we know, is for horses. Straw is for gardening, and most of its seeds have been harvested, so there shouldn’t be many (or any ...

YOU don't have to break your back or the bank to grow a successful and beautiful garden. Using straw bales in place of a traditional raised bed has a slew of benefits to the gardener and the garden.

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.