Soil storage

Maintain the goodness of your potting mix by learning how to store potting soil effectively! 🌿📦 Our guide reveals practical tips and storage solutions to preserve the nutrient value, texture, and freshness, ensuring optimal performance for your future gardening projects. Keep it fresh!

Briana Bosch on Instagram: "Embracing a sustainable approach in gardening is more important than ever before. Reducing plastic use is a vital step in this journey, as the persistence of microplastics poses significant risks to soil health and the broader ecosystem. Microplastics, stemming from plastic waste, can infiltrate the soil, disrupting the delicate balance of the environment and the soil microbes vital to the health of our soils. Opting for alternatives like soil blocking or…

If you are a composter, making homemade potting soil is easy! Just mix with sand and peat or coir. Happy container gardening!

Soil is a critical part of any garden, and if you're not sure whether your potting soil has gone bad or not, this guide will help. We'll show you the four signs that your soil has gone bad, as well as tips on how to revive it. Keep your plants happy and healthy by following these simple steps! Plus, our soil FAQs will answer some common questions about potting soil. Tap to read. Does potting soil go bad // potting soil problems // potting soil storage // potting soil tips

The process of reusing potting soil from last year is very simple. In this post, I'll go through the process step-by-step.

Make your own homemade potting soil mix. Ingredients that provide bulk, aeration, water rention & nutrients. Based on Eliot Coleman's soil block recipe.

This time of year, much of our garden activity focuses on clean up and prep work. We have a little extra time on our hands because we’re not actively gardening as much as we do in warmer months, so it’s an ideal time to get things ready for next spring. Take potting soil, for example. Many of us have bags lying around in the garden, by the back door, in the garage, or in the potting shed. Now’s the time to organize all those bags for storage, and we’ve got the steps to help you do it so your…

Here is how to declutter gardening supplies, tools and equipment from around your home, at the end of the growing season to get ready for winter, plus photos from readers who've done this mission to show the great results you can have.

Briana Bosch on Instagram: "Short on seed starting space and wanting to use less plastic in my garden, i switched to soil blocking six years ago. I’ve NEVER looked back. From MUCH easier storage, to trays that don’t need replacing (I use fiberglass trays made in the USA 💪🏻), soil blocking is a one time investment that, once mastered, produces healthier plant starts that are also more pest and drought tolerant due to their healthier root systems from the get go. We have lots of free videos…

Get your yard shed organized with our vintage ideas for potting soil storage containers, seeds, garden tools and more. Recycle your way to tidiness!