Brown compost materials are the carbon-rich backbone that lets your pile heat up, break down efficiently, and ultimately ...

A mound of compost with a hoe sticking out and a gardener's boots in the background - Annick Vanderschelden Photography/Getty Images So you've got your compost ready for the next gardening season.

If all those bags at the big box store confuse you, here's how to determine what kind of soil you need for your garden project. Before I became a gardener, the differences among all the soil mixes ...

If you're new to growing houseplants, you may have already realized that having the proper potting soil is important. And if you're already a houseplant aficionado, you know there are ready-made soil ...

Learn how to reuse potting soil effectively. One of the major components to see any type of outdoor garden flourish is the potting soil. And as any gardener knows, potting soil is not cheap.

After hundreds of years of development, Philadelphia has lost much of the organic matter, minerals, sand and clay that make up natural soil. Instead, underneath our feet is lots of "rubble, debris and ...