As any avid gardener knows, having the right soil in your garden is one of the most important steps in achieving healthy plant growth. Unfortunately, homeowners with heavy clay soil in their yards ...

Maybe you've intentionally planted lush flowers to add curb appeal to your yard, but are you paying attention to its soil quality? Without proper care, your soil can easily become eroded or ...

The conventional way that gardeners solve bad-soil trouble is by adding organic matter such as compost, leaves, grass clippings, and/or rotted manure – or bypassing in-ground planting altogether with ...

Fall is a great time to improve your soil for next year’s garden. Many of the resources needed are readily available and many are free at this time of the year. Start by putting fall leaves to work in ...

Discover why you should test your soil in January, with insights from a garden expert. Get ahead of the growing season by ...

How To Test Your Soil. Whether you're an avid gardener or just a beginner, understanding how to care for your soil is ...

What is 'no-till' gardening? Is it better for my garden than traditional digging and tilling every year or not? What are the advantages of this method and how can I start using it? This method of ...

Improve your garden's soil health by adding compost to create a foundation for healthy plants. Incorporate native plants into ...

Every fall after the growing season, I like to put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter with a cover crop of winter rye. Broadly speaking, a cover crop is a crop that covers the soil with a ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - Gardeners have truly appreciated the recent rain and are watching the weather and the calendar for opportunities to get to work outside. Be it your yard, landscape or ...

Gardening can be frustrating if you don't have the rich soil your plants need. Here is how to enrich poor soil. More Americans than ever before are gardening. The National Gardening Association ...