It's surprisingly effective, turning the bale into a kind of natural planter. The Garden Family on YouTube offers a great ...

One option you may not have considered yet is a hay bale garden, More than 20 years ago, Straw Bale Solutions author Joel Karsten created an alternative gardening method when he needed a low-cost ...

The organic and natural enzymes do their best work with suitable moisture. Hay bale gardening Probably the most fun and surprising harvesting results have come from experiments in my garden.

First, although it is sometimes called hay-bale gardening, the process does not work well with hay. Hay is feed for horses, cattle and other animals and is made up of different kinds of grasses ...

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 ...

However it’s a different story when it comes to straw bale gardening. Planting vegetables ... Karsten’s method need a straw bale (not a hay bale), high-nitrogen fertilizer, water and a ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment ...

ST. ANSGAR | Those who organize the Herb Fest in St. Ansgar Saturday know all about gardening – and now they they have added straw bale gardening to their gardening recipes. Those attending the ...

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.