How to decide whether potting mix, potting soil or garden soil will be the right choice for your gardening project.

Gardeners are being encouraged to prepare their vegetable gardens and to sow these particular seeds now or completely miss ...

How many times have you checked your recently planted pots and noticed the plants themselves were dry, but the surrounding added soil or ground around the new plant was wet? Your shiny new plant is ...

If you want to enjoy courgettes and runner beans in the summer then you need to get sowing in April - and there are also a few others you need to consider this month ...

'Stratification is the process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that a seed must experience before it can ...

If you don't know what rice hulls are, don't fret, not many of us see them. They're a by-product of rice harvesting and can ...

One prominent North Carolina State University expert offers the most up-to-date information available on growing media.

The composition of your soil can make or break your plant’s fruiting success. Strawberries do best in fertile, well-draining, ...

SPRINGTIME MUST BE my favorite time of year. When even though the days are getting longer, there aren’t enough hours in the day to get all the chores done.

I recently caught sight of the blooms of a candlestick plant (Senna alata) in my neighborhood and was reminded that this ...

Plantation Professional Grade Vermiculite is specially formulated for mushroom cultivation ... not for containers. For container gardening, you should use potting soil/mix. Can you use compost instead ...