Terrible garden soil? Or even no soil? No problem. Yes, you can garden! Straw bale gardening uses a bale as the medium in which you plant. You won't have to dig in rocky or hard soil, and it creates ...

Planting vegetables and herbs into the sides of straw bales and calling it a garden is one of the many trends in food gardening right now. Straw bale gardening is unlikely to save you any money and is ...

There are many ways to plant a garden. In-ground, raised beds, containers, there are choices that work for everyone. One unique type of gardening boasts many benefits and is easy to start and maintain ...

These raspberry leaves have been shredded by Japanese beetles, but it's only a cosmetic issue that won't seriously harm the plant. One reason why a late-summer garden can start to look, well, "tired," ...

When I moved into my new Philadelphia rowhouse, I was determined to grow the vegetable garden that had eluded me all those years in a cramped Manhattan apartment. But reality struck with the first ...

The minimalist infrastructure of the straw-bale garden, rising from the earth like something Maya Lin might design if she worked in straw instead of granite. To plant a vegetable garden in a ...

Nothing beats being bone-tired from hard work. Hauling 52 straw bales across the yard and lining them up in rows last weekend left me too tired for beer. That’s pretty tired, especially on a Saturday.

Dear Jim: I want a natural way to build an energy efficient house without plastics, foams, adhesives, etc. Straw bale houses seem to be natural. Is the straw bale construction efficient for low ...

After 11 years in a straw-bale home, Erik Lindbergh has only good things to say. “It’s not like the three little pigs, with the big bad wolf who’s going to blow it away,” Lindbergh said. His house in ...