Would you like to grow your own vegetables this year but simply don’t have a good garden spot? Or perhaps you want to start small and wish to avoid all the digging, weeding, and backbreaking work.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. egetable Garden with Tomato Plants Growing From Straw Bales Straw bale gardening is an easy way to grow a raised vegetable garden ...

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 Press, ...

This raised-bed gardening method uses straw as its primary growing medium.

As a little boy growing up on a Minnesota farm, Joel Karsten wondered why the healthiest weeds seemed to be ones growing out of broken down straw bales. Years later, after earning a degree in ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Joel Karsten has the seeds, fertilizer, soaker hose and straw bales ready to go. Karsten uses the straw instead of soil. He considers growing with straw a breakthrough vegetable growing ...

Michigan in spring is a bit of a tease. The first few days of warm weather has plant people champing at the bit to get out and start the garden. But we all know there’s still a few cold nights left ...

Add productive garden space and raise your planting bed with straw bale gardening. This technique allows you to create a raised bed garden on the patio, lawn or poor compacted soil. Straw bale ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gardening in straw bales is a flexible, waterwise way to plant a garden. Photo courtesy of strawbalegardens.com Is there any gardener who hasn’t fallen for a ...

An interesting way for the family to get involved in gardening is to try a relatively new method of gardening called straw-bale gardening. With straw-bale gardening, you grow your fresh herbs, flowers ...