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2. 8 Tips for Growing Your Own Salad Greens Indoors - AOL

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   Use a vegetable potting mix to sow seeds. Don't use garden soil for your indoor plants because it won't drain well in a container. Plus it may contain pests, plant diseases, and weed seeds.

3. Soil - Wikipedia

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   Soil, also commonly referred to as earth, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil.

4. Compost - Wikipedia

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   The resulting mixture is rich in plant nutrients and beneficial organisms, such as bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, and fungi. Compost improves soil fertility in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming, reducing dependency on commercial chemical fertilizers. [1]

5. Is It Bad To Leave Leaves On Your Lawn? Experts Explain

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   Mulch suppresses weeds, retains moisture in the soil, and adds nutrients back to the soil, too. "Fallen leaves can be used as mulch around annuals, vegetables, perennials, shrubs, and trees," says ...

6. Potting soil - Wikipedia

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   A soil test may be done to analyze the chemistry of a potting mix, despite the mix not necessarily being made of soil. As an approximation for indoor home planting, the mix is generally treated as greenhouse growth medium. The main method is a saturated media extract (SME), which tests the chemical contents of a water extract of the mix. [13] [15]

7. Avoid These Common Watering Mistakes In Your Vegetable Garden

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   But if you don’t want another garden tool, there’s a way to check the soil to know if your plants need water or not. Related: 8 Secrets To Growing Your Own Veggie Patch Mistake 4: Not Checking ...