If you think mixing your own potting soil is harmless, think again. A fluffy, nutrient-rich blend that seems perfect for your indoor plants can secretly turn into a mold magnet. It isn’t just a minor ...

Commercial potting mix fresh from the bag is safe to use without prior sterilization. Used potting mix is potentially contaminated with weed seeds, pests, or pathogens, and needs to be sterilized. To ...

Add a layer of your soil mix above the gravel layer, enough to position the plant surface, once it goes in the new pot, to ...

This beautiful, tropical plant has variegated leaves that change over time. It also does well when planted in pots, which you ...

You'll want to know about -- and avoid -- these five issues if you're planning to start your own garden seeds inside this ...

It's easy to end up with partial bags of potting soil, or pots with soil and no flowers. After awhile that soil loses nutrients and porosity. But it's useless.

Gardeners have been warned against making a common mistake that could ruin all their hard work. The warning was shared by an ...

Lucky bamboo plants are incredibly easy to propagate, allowing you to fill your garden with many more of these attractive shrubs on an extremely low budget.

Learn practical indoor gardening tips to grow herbs, flowers and leafy greens indoors, improve air quality, and care for plants in compact spaces.

Gardeners have been urged not to make a common mistake that could 'destroy' their plants. The alert was shared by an ...

They are amongst the most exquisite ornamentals, yet peonies have a rep for being the domain of sprawling beds and borders. The truth is you don’t need loads of space to grow dazzling peonies in pots, ...