This raised-bed gardening method uses straw as its primary growing medium. A straw bale garden uses straw as its primary growing medium, plus a small amount of soil or compost. This style of ...

Straw is for gardening, and most of its seeds have been harvested, so there shouldn’t be many (or any) remaining in the bale to sprout into weeds. Straw is also less likely than hay to have been ...

Celebrate National Garden Week (June 2 to 8) by rescuing an unused weedy lot or corner in your community, planting a ...

Build a compost pile as you would craft a lasagna. Construct the pile by alternating 2-inch layers of brown (dead leaves, ...

A lack of space needn’t keep you from a bounty of fresh produce if you turn to straw bales for planting edible gardens.

From obvious house to-do's like taking out the trash to others like taking pictures of turned-off appliances, these 20 things ...

When I began gardening here, I noticed this, got discouraged and then got really into mushroom cultivation. If you can’t beat ...

“Many gardeners like to grow vegetable gardens because they simply like to have something to grow while also enjoying the ...

Sometimes our garden needs a bit of extra TLC in particular - our lawn. Our grass can have yellow patches but it doesn't mean ...

If you like to cook, you might have aromatic herbs in the garden for meals all summer long. And even year after year.

This is often through "straw purchasing," when a person who's legally able to buy a gun lies on federal paperwork and then hands the firearm to someone prohibited from possessing guns or ammunition.

The rectangular straw bales bring gardening up to a more manageable height for people with disabilities. And if your soil is impossibly compacted clay, straw bales come to the rescue by providing ...