Gardening can be an incredibly relaxing and rejuvenating task. The ability to watch your seeds grow into colorful flowers or usable herbs is rewarding. A yard or patio can be transformed into an oasis through a flourishing garden. However, it can equally frustrating when your plants don't last as long as they should or fail to develop at all. It could be a technique you're using, but it could also be the soil itself.

If you have a long history of gardening, you may have learned about the downfalls of using garden soil. It's easy to fall into the garden soil trap since it's typically free. You don't want to purchase other soil or create your own because that just adds more work to your relaxing hobby. Instead, there's an easy DIY organic potting mix that can mitigate many of the pitfalls, such as rotting, restriction of air flow and pathogens, that comes with garden soil.

To learn how to create your own organic potting mix, keep reading!

Next Page »