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 ...

Planting vegetables, herbs and flowers in straw bales lives up to the promise of letting anyone, anywhere grow a successful garden without any soil, kneeling or weeding.

Straw is the leftover stalks from grain crops, usually wheat, oats, rye or barley after the edible seeds have been removed. One advantage of straw-bale gardening is that you don’t need soil.

Gardening with straw bales is like container gardening, except the container is compostable and it's nutritious for the plants it cradles. It's also like raised-bed gardening, but without the wood ...

Planting vegetables and herbs into the sides of straw bales and calling it a garden is one of the many trends in food gardening right now. Straw bale gardening is unlikely to save you any money ...

Craig LeHoullier gathers tomatoes from his vines in his lush container and straw bale garden at his Raleigh home in 2015. LeHoullier just published his second book “Growing Vegetables in Straw ...

Garden master Jim Duthie tells us all about straw bale gardening, and how it might just be the thing for you. There are lots of ways to grow a garden.

(This is why you don’t move your bale once it is in position – a wet straw bale is heavy!) For the next six days, continue watering and use a liquid fertilizer to speed decomposition.

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.