Learn how to use a soil blocker and get the perfect soil block recipe to ditch plastic in your seed starting supplies. If you already have a soil blocker, skip to the soil block recipe below. As I dig ...

Soil blocks can be made in several different sizes for use with a variety of seed sizes. Small seeds can be started in tiny soil blocks and then moved up into the dibbled holes of larger blocks once ...

As we delve into our spring planting season in North Florida, those of us who vegetable garden are busy transplanting late-spring/summer vegetables and fruits, including winter squash, summer squash, ...

A technique lets seeds grow freely and cuts down on the pileup of leftover plastic cell packs. Ron DiGravio of Johnny’s Selected Seeds came to soil blocking when he began farming about 15 years ago, ...

I’m not sick of winter yet. But I have to admit that recent warm, sunny days got me thinking about spring. I love to start seedlings in the house but recognize that it is still too early for most ...

LET’S TALK ABOUT plastic in the garden. Nursery pots and trays, plant markers, bagged goods and tarps, plastic netting, protective row-covers and even some tools — our green industry practically runs ...

Gardeners will find one less seed company doing business this winter. Fruition Seeds – an upstate New York producer and seller of organic, Northeast-adapted seed – has gone out of business ... sort of ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...