Every gardener wants the best soil for their garden. How do you know if your soil is "good"? What do you add to make it good? When you go to a plant nursery or the gardening section of a big box store ...

Kick off planting in your garden this spring by adding organic matter and making sure the soil has the right texture for ...

Clay soil rarely wins popularity contests. It clumps like wet cement during rainy stretches and then bakes into brick when the sun turns fierce. Plants struggle to push roots through it, water lingers ...

A shovel should slide into healthy soil with satisfying ease. When the blade bounces back like it just struck concrete, the ...

A practical guide to garden mulch: learn organic and inorganic types, benefits for moisture, temperature, and weeds, plus ...

Recently on a gardening social media site I follow, a picture was posted showing some rather sad vegetable plants. The person posting was asking what the problem was. They had amended their soil with ...

For effective weed suppression without the need for a weed membrane, a mulch layer should ideally be three inches deep, ...

Mulch and compost are words we use that refer to improvements in garden soil. We sometimes use these terms interchangeably and we sometimes use them incorrectly. I will attempt to clarify and give ...