Compost is black gold! It is the darling of the vegetable gardening community. So much so that people will spend untold hours and lots of back breaking labor creating it. This effort seems justified ...

It’s fall. All those straw bales you see around can be more than decorative. If you want to start gardening and are faced with rocky soil, hard pan, clay or you’re just tired of bending over, you ...

Turn those straw bales from your fall decor into a budget-friendly raised garden bed with this simple method. Straw bale gardens work well for veggies, herbs, and flowers but not perennials or larger ...

Add productive garden space and raise your planting bed with straw bale gardening. This technique allows gardeners to create raised bed gardens on a patio, lawn or any area with poor compacted soil.

If you’d like to install a raised bed but don’t have the resources to build one, you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales. It’s also a great option for those with poor ...

Gardening season is in full swing and there are lots of questions out there. Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

Did the thought of the work involved in starting a vegetable garden keep you from having one this year? Did time for all that rototilling or digging in of compost never materialized? Or maybe you ...

Straw bale gardens work well for veggies, herbs, and flowers but not perennials or larger plants. Bales need to be conditions for at least 12 days with water and fertilizer before planting. Plant ...

A compost thermometer shows the temperature in the middle of a compost pile in the straw bale composting pile at the Wake Forest University Campus Garden. The ambient temperature was about 50 degrees.