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Compost & Soil Health

Soil health is KEY in the garden! Learn how to support healthy soil and plants with compost and organic amendments here.

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    How to Amend Garden Bed Soil: Organic Fertilizer, Compost and More

  • A plastic tote full of diy seed starting mix sits on a table amongst healthy seedlings and seedling trays full of seedling mix.

    How to Make DIY Seed Starting Mix: The Best Recipe

  • Vermicomposting 101: How to Make a Simple Worm Compost Bin

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    How to Build a Compost Bin: Step-by-Step Guide with Photos

  • Six pumpkins are lined up along brick steps in two rows of three. They vary in color from light green to dark green, pink, blue, and mustard yellow.

    9 Sustainable Ways to Use or Dispose Of Pumpkins After Halloween

  • A hand is holding a glass measuring cup full of alfalfa tea, beyond is a bucket full of alfalfa tea next to a garden bed full of plants.

    How to Make Alfalfa Tea Fertilizer for Garden Plants

  • A mound of sticks and tree debris is being piled together by a person.

    Hugelkultur: A Natural, Cheap Way to Make or Fill Garden Beds

  • A row of red and green cabbage are growing in a raised bed. A row of fava beans are growing up behind the row of cabbage.

    How to Practice Crop Rotation (Garden Benefits Explained)

  • Two cupped hands are held outwards with a pile or compost worms and castings being held within.

    Worm Castings 101: Benefits to Plants and Soil

  • A large aloe vera plant is growing at the base of a tree, nasturtium flowers adorn one side of the aloe vera from a nearby plant.

    Homemade Fertilizer with Aloe Vera: Soil Drench or Foliar Spray

  • A root ball of a seedling is being held by two hands, roots are forming along the bottom of the root ball.

    The Benefits of Using Mycorrhizae in the Garden

  • Five young seedlings are laying on top of garden soil with their root balls exposed, ready to be transplanted outdoors.

    Transplanting Seedlings Outside: Tips for Success

  • Pros and Cons of 8 Types of Garden Mulch

  • Mulching 101: When, Why & How to Mulch Your Garden

  • Four wood raised garden beds are arranged on gravel hardscape. A paver pathway runs in between the four beds, two on each side of the path.

    What is No-Till Gardening or Farming (aka No-Dig): Benefits Explained

  • How to Make Stinging Nettle Fertilizer Tea to Feed Plants

  • Composting 101: What, Why & How to Compost at Home

  • How to Make Compost Tea to Fertilize Your Garden (Aerated)

  • How to Harvest Worm Castings from a Simple Worm Compost Bin

  • How to Grow & Use Aloe Vera: In the Garden & Beyond

  • Many newly built wood raised beds that are freshly filled with soil.

    How to Fill Raised Garden Beds with Organic Soil

  • A hand holding a beaker of seaweed extract to feed to seedlings, shown in the background in trays in a greenhouse

    How to Feed Seedlings with Seaweed Extract Fertilizer

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