Compost is black gold! It is the darling of the vegetable gardening community. So much so that people will spend untold hours and lots of back breaking labor creating it. This effort seems justified ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But two things to remember: Place your bales somewhere you can access water because you can’t let them dry out. You don't want to ...

Straw bales are often used for fall decorating, but did you know you also can turn them into a budget-friendly raised bed garden for growing vegetables, herbs, and annual flowers? Once winter sets in, ...

It’s fall. All those straw bales you see around can be more than decorative. If you want to start gardening and are faced with rocky soil, hard pan, clay or you’re just tired of bending over, you ...

When Joel Karsten was growing up on a farm in Minnesota, he noticed how lushly weeds grew from rotting bales of straw. That made him wonder: If straw worked so well for growing weeds, wouldn’t it work ...

If you’d like to install a raised bed but don’t have the resources to build one, you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales. It’s also a great option for those with poor ...

If you'd like to install a raised bed but don't have the resources to build one, you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales. It’s also a great option for those with poor ...

A prospective outdoor gardener in a place without any viable soil faces a dilemma. Purchasing and moving large amounts of topsoil might compromise a secret location you’ve scoped out for cannabis ...

Did the thought of the work involved in starting a vegetable garden keep you from having one this year? Did time for all that rototilling or digging in of compost never materialized? Or maybe you ...

A compost thermometer shows the temperature in the middle of a compost pile in the straw bale composting pile at the Wake Forest University Campus Garden. The ambient temperature was about 50 degrees.