While you’re researching the keys to a great garden or backyard, you might see “dirt” and “soil” come up a lot. They’re just different terms for the same stuff, right?  Not so fast. Although the two terms are used interchangeably, buying a bag of soil and buying a bag of dirt will give you two […]

To start a garden project, you just need some soil, right? Not so fast. Soil can be composed of wildly different combinations of particles, from clay to silt to soil and more. Each of these particles will have different benefits for your next gardening or soil-related project. To get the most out of your next […]

To grow a healthy garden or a beautiful landscape, you need a hearty layer of topsoil that will fit your growing needs (and work with the climate you live in).  Topsoil is exactly that: it’s the soil sits on the outermost layer of the Earth. It’s easy to access and dig through for gardeners and […]