Living Organic Soil: Digging Deeper Into Not Digging At All
The first and second parts of this series look at living organic soil, its benefits and how to build it …
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An Easy Recipe To Building Living Organic Soil
In the first part of this series, we explored the new wave of indoor organic growing using living soils and …
Grow Your Best Crops With Nature’s Helping Hand And Living Organic Soil
Why do we grow our food? Most growers will say for quality, flavour, and freshness, and to achieve those things, …
The Month Of May Brings Longer Days, Warmer Soil, And Blooming Gardens
May is such a lovely month out in the garden. The soil warms as the sun shines throughout the day, …
November Garden Tips: Keeping The Garden Cozy And Soil Healthy
It’s November; the last summer and fall perennials have died back, their roots ruminating under frostbitten soil, waiting for spring. …
How a Topdressing of Easily Accessible Mycelium Can Raise Your Growing Game
Mushroom mycelia are everywhere; with a little search, it’s relatively easy to get your hands on some commercial spent substrate …
My Fascination with Germination: A Grower Shares Some Tips And Tricks
After a long winter slumming it in our grow tents, ensuring the lack of humidity doesn’t kill the tropical plants …
Growing Advice: Is pH impHortant?
There are very few hot button topics that get indoor gardeners more riled up than the concept of “perfect pH”. …
Soil vs Substrates: How One Difference Changes Everything
Plants evolved over 600 million years ago into a microbial world. Their roots extended into soils teeming with microbial life. …
Want To Save The World? Start By Saving The Soil
What is “Living Soil”? It seems like a concept that has been gaining momentum in the 21st century. I won’t …
Experimenting With Substrates: Homemade Soil Mixes
It’s the first week in May as an intermittent hailstorm pummels the polycarbonate roof of Incredible Farm’s greenhouse. Head grower …
Time To Act: Six Ways To Save Water In The Garden
Clean water is something that most of us take for granted, but the fragility, dependence, and vitalness of water to …
Harnessing Nature Through Regenerative Agriculture
Hack an aspen tree down to its stump, and within weeks, it will regenerate new limbs. But strip away the …
Revolution is a Dirty Business: Two Women’s Journey Reshaping AgriCULTURE
While conventional agriculture turns to fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to help with crops, regenerative growing takes a different approach. The …
5 Cool Ways to Conserve Garden Soil
Soil is not an infinite resource. The United Nations predicts we only have 60 years of topsoil left; it’s more …
Fight Pests, Diseases, and Improve Soil Health with Vermicast
What Is Soilless Potting Mix And How To Use It
The term “soilless mix” is thrown around a lot in the gardening world, assuming that we all know what it …
Studies Point To Biochar As A Solution To Environmental Issues
If there is a magical, organic substance that can be added to the soil for better crop quality and higher …
Guano: From The Bat Cave To Your Gardens
For thousands of years, from the time of the Incas through modern-day, bat guano has been used in farming worldwide. Within the growing industry, bat guano is often sold as a flowering-stage booster applied to increase the size and weight of fruits and vegetables.
Preparing your Soil for Winter
Soil is considered as an essential foundation for growing plants and trees. Though each plant type requires different needs, you …