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How to Pick the Right Soil for Your Garden and Keep It Healthy

When planting trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, fruits and vegetables, the right soil can make all the difference. When you go to your local nursery, you can run into a lot of different types of soil and may not know how they differ. Keep reading for five different types of soil, [...]

Breathe Easy: How to Purify the Air with 8 Indoor Plants

Have you ever felt the need to open a window and get some fresh air inside your home? All too often, stagnant indoor air allows pollutants to build up and stick around, causing us to breath more toxins than we should be. There’s good news, though! A

Therapeutic Gardening / Horticulture Therapy

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. If you’ve been thinking about starting a garden or if you are feeling guilty about spending too much time with your hands in the dirt, now you have more reasons than ever to get out your gardening [...]

Sustainable Gardening in 8 Steps

In warm weather, your yard demands more use of our natural resources. The following will help you create a beautiful leisure space that is sustainable too. 8 Steps to a Sustainable Garden: 1. Hydrozone When you create hydrozones, it means [...]

Urban Container Gardening

Unfortunately not everyone has access to a lush backyard where the soil is rich and ready for planting. For many of us urbanites and suburbanites, growing plants in individual pots or containers (container gardening) is often the only option for growing [...]