Straw Bale Gardening

Gardening is more popular than ever and now you can grow all types of vegetables in any location. Idiot's Guides: Straw Bale Gardening explains the many advantages of growing an entire garden in straw bales. Dozens of helpful step-by-step, color photography illustrates how to arrange and prepare the bales to get the best results and take full advantage of all that straw bale gardening offers:

-- Easier to build than typical raised-bed or container gardens
-- Easier to arrange and access than other raised-bed gardens
-- Less expensive than most raised-bed or container gardens of equal size
-- Greater resistance to pests
-- No tilling
-- No or little weeding

Finally, with color illustrations, the reader is shown what grows best next to what and how much can be planted to maximize yield.

Auteur

John Tullock has written 16 how-to books and blogs regularly about food gardening and sustainable living at http://johntullock.blogspot.com. He is a self-employed consultant to industry on messaging, marketing and development of sustainable products and technology, with clients in the United States and Italy. He is an avid gardener, and among his books are: 2015: Idiot's Guides: Vegetable Gardening, Alpha Books. 2012: The New American Homestead: Sustainable, Self-Sufficient Living in the City or the Country, Wiley Publishing. 2010: Pay Dirt: How to Make $10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden, Adams Media In 2006, the American Horticulture Society honored his Growing Hardy Orchids (which is also illustrated with numerous photos) with their Great Garden Book award.