Urban Hoop Garden

I've seen these around when I'm driving and wondered what they called them and how they made them. Now I've found a video on it and wanted to post it here:

How to build an Urban Hoop Garden

Old Tires in the Garden

My husband actually has a couple of old tires out back as mini raised beds. He has summer squash in them.
I've just stumbled upon videos of other people using old tires for gardening:

Tire planting stand

How to cut a tire and make it into a garden pot
(tire sculptures in this one also)

How to make a Rubber Tire Flower Pot

Tire Garden Experiment
(lots of unique ideas in this one)

Gardening in Straw Bales

My husband grew some of the best peppers in straw bales last year.

Here's one "how to" for straw bale gardening:
Straw Bale Gardening: Start to Finish

Kale

"Kale is one of the most worthwhile crops you can grow. It is easy, undemanding, tolerant of heat, drought, wet, cold, and poor soil. It can be eaten at the small leaf stage in salads, mid-size leaves are good steamed, and large leaves can be chopped and stir fried or put into stews. One especially good dish is lentil stew with leeks and kale."

So says the this article on kale at Gardens on the Go located here:
Growing Kale

Here's the Farmer's Almanac on Kale:
Kale -- Farmer's Almanac

And this from The National Garden Association
Edible of the Month (from the Edible Landscaping section)

Zone Five

Yep, that's the zone I live in.
Here is a planting schedule for zone 5
Zone 5 Vegetable Planting
If you live in a different zone, you can look it up at the above linked site

Off-Grid Self-Watering Container Garden

This one looks interesting. I'm going to watch the rest of it and then find the two videos that were supposed to come before it:

Off-Grid Self-Watering Container Gardening System

Growing Pumpkins

This looks like the place to start learning about pumpkins:

Growing pumpkins

I really think that I want a pumpkin patch. I hear that deer leave them alone which might make them suitable for our  country property.