Add minerals, compost, and mulch now and you'll have super-fertile soil come spring. As the busy garden season wraps up, there's one last—but very important—task to tend to: Feeding your soil.

The relationship between amending the soil at planting time, the choice of using woodchips as a surface mulch or applying crushed rock influences the types of plants found in your landscape. Of course ...

Life is in the soil and here in West Texas the soil needs to be amended, said Master Gardener Allison Smith. "The most important thing is that life is in the soil," said Smith, who owns Ladybug ...

The best garden soils are usually a rich brown or tan shade. However, these other colors indicate your soil is not getting the elements it needs.

CORVALLIS – Adding organic matter is the best way to improve nearly all kinds of soils. If you’re unsure if your soil needs amendments, take note if it dries and cracks in summer, drains slowly or is ...

The transition from a late, lingering, winter into an early summer has progressed too quickly to suit me this year. Our normal sequence of bloom has been turned into a sudden explosion of bloom, as ...

For years I have been a cheerleader for composting. All those kitchen scraps, all of the debris that’s cleaned out of gardens ...

All soils contain a percentage of sand, silt and clay. This is what gives a soil its texture. Next time you’re in the garden, wet a small ball of soil in your hand. If the ball wants to break apart, ...

Q: I planted two viburnums at the edge of my property last spring. I thought I dug the hole plenty big - 3 times the diameter of the root ball and as deep as its depth - and I still had to raise them ...

A soil amendment is any material added to a soil to improve its physical properties, such as water retention, permeability, water infiltration, drainage, aeration and structure. The goal is to provide ...

A soil amendment is any material added to a soil to improve its physical properties, such as water retention, permeability, water infiltration, drainage, aeration and structure. The goal is to provide ...