When you look at the walk-behind compactors in your fleet, chances are you don't think of them as precise scientific instruments. Yet, soil compaction is a science and it requires a certain degree of ...

Most gardeners know that success depends on many factors: You can’t grow a sun-loving plant in a shady area, for example. And a shrub that loves wet places won’t do well in dry soil. But the most ...

Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of organic materials and avoiding compaction, results in a soil with many ...

It depends on the type of grass you grow.

I often mention my veg patch’s clay soil in this column, and that’s because soil type affects what we grow and how. Getting to know your soil is an essential part of becoming a great grower of edible ...

My lawn is 50 years old and has never been aerified. When is the best time to do this and is there a particular type of aerification that is best? --D.H., Liverpool. Dear D.H.: Aerification is a ...

That’s probably the first thing that Virginia Beach gardeners need to know. Most local soils are clay, which means that they’re hard, compacted, and poorly drained. If you live along Pungo Ridge, at ...

Deep ripping can be beneficial to highly compacted sandy soils to “remove physical constraints to root growth which result from compaction due to machinery trafficking, animal trampling or natural ...

If your garden soil turns into a brick when it’s dry or a swamp when it’s wet, the plants aren’t being dramatic—the soil is.

Fifth in a series republished with permission from the San Diego County Water Authority‘s website. Every individual landscape sits in one of San Diego County’s 16 watersheds. The watershed approach to ...