Topsoil vs compost… is there even any difference? After all, they’re both brown and muddy and sold in basically the same packages at the garden centre. However, they’re not as similar as you ...

By now, you’ve harvested all, or at least most, of the vegetables in your garden. At this point the soil is naked, and that’s ...

Soil tests yield vital information about the pH balance of your soil, the physical composition of it, and the nutrient base.

Today, we’re embarking on a vital chapter in the art of gardening – the bedrock of success: soil preparation and composting.

The best gardeners know that gardening is not the art of cultivating good plants, but of cultivating good soil. Worms are brilliant at making compost. Find out more from our worm article and make ...

Compost heaps can be designed to suit gardens ... posts to enclose an area about 1sq m (40sq in.) Then bash the soil with the back of a spade to consolidate it. Next either tack wire netting ...

If you’re planning a new garden, you should start with good soil. After all, soil is the medium of life for plants, providing a place for roots to spread out and take up water and nutrients.

The conventional way that gardeners solve bad-soil trouble is by adding organic matter such as compost, leaves, grass clippings, and/or rotted manure – or bypassing in-ground planting altogether ...

No-dig is an alternative to working your soil. Instead ... Dowding says making compost boosts your mood as well as your plants. “A lot of people say to me, ‘It’s amazing, this is such ...

Myno Carbon says with a robust market pull, US biochar production has potential to remove over a billion metric tonnes of ...

Using a trowel, dig up a small sample of soil at each location and place it in a tray with that location labelled. Bring back to the classroom or take a picture of each sample. If you lack nearby ...

"We make an amazing amount of compost in our own garden and it's wonderful that it all goes back into the land and helps regenerate the soil," said Ms Andrews. "It's a great way of not putting the ...