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 ...

Use bales of straw, not hay, for gardening, he said. Hay contains weed seeds and usually is too dense for best results. Choose bales held together tightly with twine. Farmers and local farm supply ...

All right, well you have to use straw bale and not a hay bale, there is a difference. - So there's a difference between the two, straw and hay, okay. - Yes, you want straw bales. And you choose a ...

you can actually plant an entire garden within straw bales. Hay bale gardening is great for those with poor soil or limited space, or even people who have physical limitations that make gardening ...

As first-time builders, they combined elements from various approaches ”“ a straw bale house with a gravel foundation, a floor made from second-hand pallets, a composting toilet, and a permaculture ...

But the humble hay bale could soon be going highbrow as officials in one Brunswick County beach town see if hay and pine straw can be an effective alternative to sand fencing. Ocean Isle Beach ...

It shows the sleeves-up, hands-dirty process of building a straw bale home on Chouinard’s plot in a middle-class, suburban Ventura neighborhood. A centuries-old building practice, straw bale ...

I chose four pea straw bales for my beds, but any kind of straw works fine. Just avoid hay bales, which are an animal feed crop and so contain seed heads that could germinate in your bed.