Guides on growing in soil, coco coir, and other organic media. Learn how to choose the right growing medium, build living soil, amend with compost and minerals, and understand how your substrate choices affect water retention, drainage, and nutrient availability.
Growing in coco coir gives indoor growers precise control over aeration, moisture retention, and nutrition — but getting the most out of it requires understanding how…
Dustin Davis
Build your own organic living soil with our complete 100 gallon super soil recipe, amendment breakdown, cooking timeline, and reuse tips for no till growers.
Dustin Davis
Are you curious about how to use dolomite for plants? By the end of this article, you’ll feel confident using this unique compound in the garden…
Dustin Davis
Rockwool is one of the most widely used substrates in hydroponics — and for good reason. Formed by melting basalt rock and spinning it into dense…
Jacob Rodowick
How To Stabilize The pH of Growstones. pH stabilization is necessary since growstones naturally come from the manufacturer with a high pH.
Jacob Rodowick
What are worm castings, and why should you care? You may have heard of growers amending their soil with harvested worm castings, but did you know…
Tyler Hair
When you need to add phosphorus to the soil in your garden, many organic gardeners turn to bone meal fertilizer for plants. This is a highly effective…
Garrett Dupree
Your grow media decides how much water your roots hold, how much oxygen they get, and how tightly you can steer a feed program. Soil buffers…
Jacob Rodowick
Wetting agents solve two different problems: sprays that bead up on waxy leaves and dry peat mixes that shed water. Learn how surfactants work, when a…
Garrett Dupree
If you plan on growing huge, potent plants, whether it be indoors or outdoors, you need the best garden pots. If you think all garden pots…
Garrett Dupree
Depth, frame material, and soil ratio make or break a raised bed—not just what you plant in it. This guide walks through building or buying a…
Garrett Dupree
As you finish up your grow, you are likely wondering how to amend your soil for the next growing season. Or, maybe your plants are just…
Garrett Dupree
If you want to grow healthy plants you need to put extra work in to test your pH and TDS or EC. You also need to…
Garrett Dupree
In the realm of sustainable gardening, "Cover Crops" stand out as a cornerstone practice, offering myriad benefits to both the soil and the subsequent plants it…
Tyler Hair
If you’ve ever found yourself trying to determine the difference between perlite and vermiculite, you’ve come to the right place. Although these two are quite similar,…
Garrett Dupree
Choosing the best soil for indoor and outdoor plants doesn’t have to be complicated. From organic potting mixes to coco and perlite blends, the right medium…
Garrett Dupree
