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Quick Tip: Save Soil from Purchased Plants

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By Jennifer Poindexter When you purchase plants from your local nursery, do you save the soil in the planting containers? If not, you may want to start. Purchasing soil can increase your gardening costs. To some, this may defeat the purpose of growing a garden. Instead … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Container Gardening Tagged With: container soil, soil mix container

What is a growing medium for plants?

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QUESTION: What is a growing medium for plants? I see these words mentioned all the time in articles about how to grow plants when I look them up. Is it like dirt, or what? - Paisley O GARDENING CHANNEL REPLIES: A growing medium for plants is anything placed within a pot that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Soil & Composting Tagged With: compost soil, container gardening, container soil, gardening soil, plant growing medium, vermiculite

Perlite vs Vermiculite, Fully Explained

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by Matt Gibson and Erin Marissa Russell If you are standing in the garden center, trying to figure out which additive your soil needs the most, wondering what the difference is between perlite and vermiculite, then this article is for you. The two soil additives are popular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Soil & Composting Tagged With: container gardening, container soil, garden soil, soil additive, soil amendment, soil amendments, soil recipes, Vermiculite vs perlite

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