What it is and why it is one of the most important contributing factors to gardening success. If you’ve ever looked into gardening or if you’re already into gardening and you keep up on gardening literature, I’m sure you’ve heard volumes of discussion with respect to organic matter. It seems like you can never escape [...]
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Preventing Indoor Plants from Tipping Over
Trimming potted plants back so they don’t become too top-heavy seems like an obvious solution to this problem, but sometimes you’d rather let your plants grow out a little more and let them fill up more space. And, of course, some of us would rather not mess with trimming altogether if we could help it. [...]
Slugs and Snails: Thwarting the Slimy Buggers
Slugs and snails can be a problem predator for your plants. Lots of time has gone into testing methods of preventing slugs from getting to plants, including eggshells, citrus, oatmeal, beer, gravel, sharp rocks, ashes, sand, and even bits of glass. Of all of those methods, ashes and sand seem to be the only ones [...]
At Home Test for Soil Texture
We are in the process of updating this post with better pictures that will provide a better idea of the results you’ll see. In the meantime, we hope you have fun following the instructions below! The soil texture field test is something you can do to get a very basic idea of the type of [...]
Soil Texture and What it Means for Your Plants
The basic idea: The texture of soils can be divided into three parts according to particle size and structure: sand, silt, and clay. The various concentrations and organization of these three types of particles is what gives a soil its physical structure, and it is the physical structure of your soil that has a lot [...]
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