Learning how to improve clay soil for gardening will increase the health of your flowers and the yields of your crops. Thankfully, it's not as difficult as it first appears – there are short ...

Few homes here come with gardens full of that rich, crumbly dark soil that is a gardener’s dream when it comes to growing ...

Care requirements: Full sun to partial shade; well-drained to heavy clay soils ...

Of all the things I have learned in the 50-plus years gardening — or trying to garden — in our red clay on East Blythe Street in Paris, three stand ...

I would like to improve the heavy clay soil in my vegetable garden. A friend suggested that I rototill several inches of sand to improve the drainage. Is that a good way to improve clay soil ...

Planting may also be difficult as spades frequently hit lumps of hard chalk or flint Clay soil - this is ... most times of the year Silty soil - is made up of fine grains, originally deposited ...

soil organisms take the oxygen they need from nitrates, leaving the nitrogen in a gaseous form which escapes into the air. This is known as denitrification and is the common source of nitrogen loss in ...

When he took over the farm from his parents, the soil had a lot of fine particles. The silt, sand, and clay making up the soil would come apart easily. After a heavy rain, the soil would become ...

Eluviation is the removal of soil, clay, silt or fine organic matter in suspension from a soil horizon. The iron and aluminium oxides collect in the 'B' horizon where the iron oxides can ...