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

Q: A gardener friend moved and left me with several bags of ingredients for making potting soil. I have never made potting soil before. What proportions should I use? Do these ingredients go bad at ...

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"Take your fingers and go, boom boom boom boom," he says, demonstrating how to pack a mixture of peat moss, dirt, lime, perlite and other components into galvanized metal boxes equipped with a lever.

Peat moss is a totally organic product in the early spring garden. It improves the texture of the cool spring soil and helps ...

Take potting mix and potting soil ... Potting soil is soil enhanced with enrichments like compost and peat moss. Soil is the layer of the earth that supports plant life, and it naturally contains ...