Growing your own vegetables sounds terrific, but not everyone is up for the heavy work typically associated with cultivating a successful vegetable garden. Enter Joel Karsten's revolutionary method detailed in his how-to manual "Straw Bale Gardening." The book teaches gardeners how to grow vegetables, root crops, vines, and/or flowers by planting them into the top and sides of a straw bale. In addition to outlining the best methods for conditioning the straw bale to get it ready to plant, "Straw Bale Gardening" also covers all the related tasks of setting up, planting, maintaining, and harvesting the straw bale garden.