Flowering in late spring or during the early summer months, peonies are a great way to add a dramatic touch to your garden.

We'll also teach you how to amend the soil you have so you can grow the plants you want. Depending on where you live, you're ...

Adding organic materials improves the ability of sandy soils to hold nutrients and water. For clay soil, organic additions improve drainage and aeration and help the soil dry out and warm up more ...

"Clay soil, sandy soil, loamy soil and compacted soil require different methods for straw return. Regardless of the type of ...

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 ...

Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter. Both the clay and organic matter particles have a net negative charge. Thus, these negatively-charged soil particles will ...