Plant Care Articles and Insights

Garden Soil vs. Potting Mix: Which One Are You Actually Supposed to Use Where?

Garden Soil vs. Potting Mix: Which One Are You ...

Lauren Cain

Garden soil vs potting mix confuses almost everybody. Here's the plain-English rule for which goes in pots, which goes in the ground, and why both eventually need living microbes.

Garden Soil vs. Potting Mix: Which One Are You ...

Lauren Cain

Garden soil vs potting mix confuses almost everybody. Here's the plain-English rule for which goes in pots, which goes in the ground, and why both eventually need living microbes.

How to Extend Your Harvest by 6 Weeks Using Succession and Organic Feeding

How to Extend Your Harvest by 6 Weeks Using Suc...

Lauren Cain

Two simple habits can keep you picking tomatoes, beans, and greens about six weeks longer: succession planting and feeding living soil microbes. Here's the easy, no-fuss way to do both.

How to Extend Your Harvest by 6 Weeks Using Suc...

Lauren Cain

Two simple habits can keep you picking tomatoes, beans, and greens about six weeks longer: succession planting and feeding living soil microbes. Here's the easy, no-fuss way to do both.

The Back-to-School Garden: How to Keep It Going When Life Gets Busy Again

The Back-to-School Garden: How to Keep It Going...

Lauren Cain

Life gets busy in fall, but your garden doesn't have to suffer. Simple low-effort routines + organic fertilizer for indoor plants to keep things thriving.

The Back-to-School Garden: How to Keep It Going...

Lauren Cain

Life gets busy in fall, but your garden doesn't have to suffer. Simple low-effort routines + organic fertilizer for indoor plants to keep things thriving.

Azotobacter: The Free-Living Nitrogen Fixer That Works Even Without Legumes

Azotobacter: The Free-Living Nitrogen Fixer Tha...

Lauren Cain

 Meet Azotobacter, the free-living soil bacteria that pulls nitrogen from the air without legumes. See how this natural nitrogen fixer feeds your garden.

Azotobacter: The Free-Living Nitrogen Fixer Tha...

Lauren Cain

 Meet Azotobacter, the free-living soil bacteria that pulls nitrogen from the air without legumes. See how this natural nitrogen fixer feeds your garden.

Organic Vegetable Fertilizer: What to Feed Each Vegetable and When

Organic Vegetable Fertilizer: What to Feed Each...

Lauren Cain

A plain-English guide to organic vegetable fertilizer — exactly what to feed tomatoes, peppers, leafy greens, beans, root crops and more, and the right timing for each.

Organic Vegetable Fertilizer: What to Feed Each...

Lauren Cain

A plain-English guide to organic vegetable fertilizer — exactly what to feed tomatoes, peppers, leafy greens, beans, root crops and more, and the right timing for each.

Organic Fertilizer Runoff vs. Synthetic: What the Research Actually Shows

Organic Fertilizer Runoff vs. Synthetic: What t...

Lauren Cain

A 129-study meta-analysis compared nitrogen runoff from organic and synthetic fertilizers. Here's what it found, and what it means for your garden and yard.

Organic Fertilizer Runoff vs. Synthetic: What t...

Lauren Cain

A 129-study meta-analysis compared nitrogen runoff from organic and synthetic fertilizers. Here's what it found, and what it means for your garden and yard.