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How to Grow Fruits and Veggies at Home
Growing your own food has countless benefits and can turn into a quite fulfilling hobby! It will lead to a healthier lifestyle and reduce your carbon footprint substantially. Visit the different pages we have providing step by step instructions and tips on growing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
We also have a page dedicated specifically to testing and preparing the soils you plan to garden in. There are some neat cost-saving methods to getting your soil just right!
Soil Types and Characteristics
The two major soils classification systems are AASHTO and USCS. Both these systems are good when looking at technical qualities such as grain size distribution, liquid limit, and plasticity index.
We also break down soils into more general qualities that can help you decide which soil is the right choice for your everyday projects.