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The healthier the medium, the healthier the plant. Build a thriving base by following our tips for adding various essential elements, boosting microbial activity, and more!

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From Diatoms to Diatomaceous

Diatoms are common single-celled algae found in the phytoplankton of both fresh and salt waters. They can also live inland …

Make Your Own Organic Soil Mix

Soil is like water. Both sustain life as we know it, yet they are so omnipresent that we take them …

Understanding Enzymes for Plants

What are enzymes? Why are so many fertilizer companies adding enzymes to their ever-expanding list of essential supplements? Enzymes are extremely small, yet powerful proteins made of complex chains of amino acids folded in shapes reminiscent of Pac-Man.

Healthy Soil & Microbes Make It Rain?

The importance of building healthy soil is greater than organic growing. Even conventional growers are discovering this too. But the …

Nitrogen Changes Potting Mix pH

Container gardeners might want to pay closer attention to the type of nitrogen in their fertilizer – it can actually change your …

Straw Bale Garden: Take 2, Scene 2

If you’re going to grow a straw bale garden, adding compost tea with microbes is a definite asset. Not just …

Straw Bale Garden: Take 2, Scene 1

It’s the second year that I’ve planted a straw bale garden. Spring is always highly anticipated in a cold climate, …

Fake Mars Soil Grows Safe Food?

Perhaps it’s time to reassess the realities in relying on synthetics. Now, plant specialists have determined that fake Mars soil …

Ancient Soil Building Technique Key to Climate & Fertility

So much for old traditions being obsolete. The latest findings show that a soil building technique used in Africa for the past 700 …

Who Invented Potting Mix?

Like most of us, you probably never even wondered why we have potting mix. It’s just there in the garden …

Is Garden Soil Testing Important?

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Food from Rocks? Gravel Gardening

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Plastic Pots Reducing Your Harvest?

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Should You Sterilize Potting Soil?

Recently, I’ve come across several discussions and articles on the need to sterilize potting soil or garden soil. One person …

Straw Bale Garden Potatoes

There they are – straw bale garden potatoes, which at first sight are amazingly clean compared to tubers grown in …

Straw Bale Gardening 2

Things are looking pretty good out there now that we’re almost into mid-August. Straw bale gardening has presented me with …

Straw Bale Garden Adventures

There it is. Not long after planting. Having plenty of room for a small farm, let alone a garden, some thought …

Butts & Pots Don’t Mix

Maybe a more appropriate title would be No Butts On The Balcony, but it’s not contained to apartment gardeners. House …

Media Matters… A Lot

While shopping for seed starting supplies this winter, I came across this growing media called, Wonder Soil. Never heard of …

Soil Immigration

You know the process known as laying in fresh soil, which unless you dug it up in one corner of …

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