It's easy to think of soil as mere dirt, but it’s so much more complicated than that. If you garden, both the structure and ...

Some disadvantages of sandy soil are: Improving sandy soil requires two essential elements: Organic materials you mix in, and ...

Dirt is what’s tracked onto your kitchen floor. Soil is what plants grow in. Having gardened on both Sutherland clay and ...

Soil types included two sandy loams, one loam, and the rest silt loams and silty ... increased by applying the concepts discussed earlier about food supply and surface mulch protection (Table 3).

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! October is here with some beautiful fall weather. Unfortunately, we are going to ...

Enforcement of illegal dumping of mulch is inadequate, resulting in piles of this material on empty land, catching fire ...

Protect the soil by covering it with mulch before temperatures drop too low. "Covered soil retains more water, is less compacted, and has less weed pressure," says Bruhn. Rather than buying mulch ...

Kansas State University horticulture expert Cynthia Domenghini suggests organic mulch around diameter of the tree.

My father told me when I was young that as I got older, the seasons and years would fly by. At the time, for an 8-year-old ...

Autumn and winter watering does have major benefits, however there are drawbacks. Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit.