Is Potting Soil Safe To Play In? 5 Tips For Keeping Your Kids Safe Is potting soil safe to play in? Yes, potting soil is generally safe to play in if you take some precautions. Make sure to wash your hands afterward, and don’t eat any of the soil if you can help it. Even…
How To Compost Using Free Local Resources There is absolutely no reason to spend large amounts of money on buying compost from the local big box stores, nurseries, or trying to make your own. It’s simple if you know how to compost using free local resources. The idea of composting is simple. It is completely…
How to mulch with leaves Many people see the piles of dropped autumn leaves as a hindrance. This could be due to the work involved raking them up, bagging them and sitting them by the curb for the city to pick up. So, why do it? Why not use the fallen leaves in a positive…
Top 4 Tips to Build Healthy Garden Soil Soil is a blend of organic material, water, air, and minerals. The organic matter comes from plant roots, microorganisms, and decaying plants and animals. When you follow these top 4 tips to build healthy garden soil, you will be pleased with your garden. When the organic material…
How to Amend Clay Soil Gardening can be difficult when your garden is mostly clay soil. Clay soil is challenging because it is dense and holds a lot of moisture. It looks like nothing would grow in it. Most people blame the builders for removing the quality soil during the home construction. However, with a…
Revitalizing Potting Soil: 4 Incredibly Easy Steps to Reuse Soil Ever wondered if you could reuse your old potting soil? It can be done! Here are 4 Incredibly Easy Steps to Revitalizing Potting Soil! How do you revitalize and reuse potting soil? Use compost to refresh potting soil from last season and keep your container…
Seed Starting Mix Starting plants from seed is fun, and it’s also a huge money saver. When I talk about starting seeds indoors, one of the first questions new gardeners ask me is about the best seed starting mix to use. This is a very important question, because the type of soil you use to…
Want a super productive garden this year? The super simple method of double digging can help you turn a productive garden into a super productive garden. If you have an area of soil that you want to turn into a garden bed with deep, loose soil, then you’ll need to put in some elbow grease and…
What is Compost: Black Gold? In our world today we have many different opportunities to go green. We can use solar energy to power our homes, drive a hybrid car, reuse old things and live in small houses. One of the most overlooked ways to go green is the practice of composting. Composting is a…
