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 ...

OAKLAND – Bonnie and Don Winters aren’t counterculture holdovers from the 1960s even though they live peacefully on 4 wooded acres in a tiny house made of straw. The 20-by-25-foot unconventional white ...

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. … but our independent journalism isn’t ...

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.