Anything that grows in soil should grow in a hay bale garden. If you’re new to gardening, try planting seedlings, such as tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, from a local garden center or home store.

Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into ...

When shopping for bales, avoid hay, which contains seeds and, as we know, is for horses. ... you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales.

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 ...

With bales of hay there must be a demand or a willing buyer to sell a load of hay. Oklahoma —In the Feb. 28 report, compared to the last report, demand for hay is slow to steady, and prices ...

Merrill farmer Hans Breitenmoser sent 54 large bales of hay to North Carolina. ... whether it’s packing plants or milk plants, all the things, it’s really hard to recover from,” he explained.

When shopping for bales, avoid hay, which contains seeds. Straw is for gardening, and most of its seeds have been harvested. So there shouldn’t be many remaining in the bale to sprout into weeds.

These bales would be taken to the barn and put on an elevator that took them up to the barn mow. Hay mechanization took a major leap in the 1970s and 1980s with the introduction of the large round ...