A prospective outdoor gardener in a place without any viable soil faces a dilemma. Purchasing and moving large amounts of topsoil might compromise a secret location you’ve scoped out for cannabis ...

My sister Laura and Grandma Josephine tending the chickens on the family farm. Yes, that is a little genuine Minnesota straw in the foreground. Because the straw bale generates heat as the straw ...

Get started gardening in driveway planters. Here are easy straw bale gardening instructions to add some food and flowers to your sunny driveway. I was smitten with my driveway last summer. For several ...

Pine straw is an organic mulch made from fallen pine needles, explains Mary Jane Duford, founder of the beginner gardening blog Home for the Harvest. Like any garden mulch, pine needles create a ...

Starting a vegetable garden can be a rewarding prospect for any homeowner. In addition to having fresh veggies on the ready, digging in the dirt has big health benefits. Though yanking out weeds might ...

Straw bale gardening is not something I’ve tried before, but it is on the cards for this year. The technique has been around since the Sixties, if not earlier. An American horticulturalist, Joel ...

"Straw bale housing is a bit of a love-hate thing," says Sam Statham in his home with its slightly wonky walls and earthy, rustic charm, near Canowindra, in central west New South Wales. "I love the ...

Keeping soil in good health is fundamental to growing successful, high-yielding crops, says Gordon Rennie, farm manager on the 280ha Stenton Farm, in St Monans, Fife. He should know, back in 1981 on a ...

The survival of all beings mostly depends on agriculture, crops and its sustainability due to the application of fertilizer. A growing issue today is that fertilizer contains chemicals that are ...