After researching more than 20 of the best grow mix options, our favorite is the Espoma Organic Seed Starter Premium Potting Soil Mix.

Germinating Seeds in Soil Learn how to start germinating seeds in soil. Make homemade seed starting trays, prevent damping off and watch your seedlings grow.

CORVALLIS — While you’re battling the winter blues, make your own seed-starting mix and plan for the gardening days ahead. Home gardeners can start vegetable and flower seedlings indoors from ...

Compost and wood chips make an excellent team when it comes to creating a potting mix. Compost adds essential nutrients and enhances soil fertility, while wood chips work like perlite or vermiculite, ...

The seed-starting kit has two 24-cell seed starting trays with a propagation tray for watering, two germination dome covers which regulate temperature, a six-quart bag of seed starting soil mix, a ...

Since damping off is more likely to start in compacted soil, resist the temptation to press down your seed starting mix when filling your containers or placing your seed. Instead leave the soil ...

Seed starting trays make it easy to plant many seeds at once before transferring them to a larger garden. These are the best trays to shop according to gardening experts.

You don’t need much — 1/4 inch applied on the surface of the existing soil. New soil or old soil, it is time to start preparing for starting seeds, tubers and bulbs.

Since you are not a real gardener unless you grow something from seed, and since we are approaching seed-starting season, the one thing we all need is good starting soil. There are a few things to ...