All plants in your yard need soil with a proper amount of essential nutrients, vitamins, and other all-around good stuff to thrive and grow beautifully, so purchasing the wrong additives can do your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Winter composting is not only possible-it's a great way to keep building that beautiful, nutrient-rich soil your garden craves ... but trust me, it makes a big difference! Not only does shredding ...

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 Johnson-Su Bioreactor, designed by University of New Mexico Molecular Biologist David Johnson and his wife Hui-Chun Su, creates compost that teems with microorganisms, which improve soil health ...

so it’s useful to know your soil’s pH. Testing kits are easy to use and widely available in garden centres and online. pH of 6.5, so testing the level before adding the Can refer to either home-made ...

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

In the past, peat has been used for soil improvement and mulching, but other materials are better suited to these tasks. Peat is never used as a soil improver or mulch in RHS Gardens. Soil can be ...

Angle the blower so it pushes the air over the surface of your mulch, not directly at it. This keeps the mulch, topsoil, and chips from blowing away ... Contact a lawn care professional near you to ...