Every great garden starts with healthy, nutrient-rich soil. You need great soil for container gardening also!

No matter what great varieties of plants you pick, or how you feed, water, and care for them-your time will be wasted if you don't have good soil. And remember, even the greatest of soils can stand improvement from year to year.

To improve the quality of the soil in your garden, you need to know its texture. Do you have sandy or clay soil? To get a general idea of your soil texture, you can perform the ribbon test. Take a handful of moist soil and roll it between your palms until it forms a ribbon. If it feels gritty and breaks apart immediately, the soil is predominately sand. If the soil feels smooth, and holds its shape for a short time before breaking apart, it's mostly silt. However, if it feels sticky and holds together in a ribbon, then it's clay. What you need is not sand or clay, but a nutrient rich, well draining soil. At Jade Gardens we have everything from triple mix, to composted manure to peat moss to regular black earth. We have special soils for container gardening, and cacti & succulents.

We also carry a great selection of Grass Seeds, Fertilizers, and Organic Lawn & plant Fertilizers. We feature NoMowGrass seed which requires less mowing, reduced watering and chemical use. For more information visit the NoMowGrass website at http://www.nomowgrass.ca/index.php/home.