Straw bale gardening!
I'm either a sucker for anything trendy related to gardening, or I continue my quest to grow vegetables tomatoes at our home. I would hope that the latter is closer to the truth, but we've experimented with topsy-turvy upside-down planters, square-foot gardening, container-only gardening, and plant-in-the-dang-dirt-and-hope-something grows gardening. (Note: Topsy-turvys worked very well when we lived in an apartment and had a balcony that got lots of light. Everything else has been meh.) So this year, it's straw bales! As Joel Karsten, the main evangelist for straw bale gardening puts it, vegetables and flowers need good soil , and weekend gardeners want to minimize the amount of time and maintenance needed to keep a garden healthy. This method of gardening works very well from areas inside the Arctic Circle, to the heat of the Caribbean. If you can find bales of straw, or similar bales of tightly compressed organic material, you can garden this way. Simply r...