Soil conditioner is a type of soil amendment composed of inorganic and organic materials for improving soil. Soil conditioner is best for improving clay soil and compacted soils. Soil conditioner ...

Gardeners deal with clay soil in two ways. The first is to amend the soil in an effort to deal with its drainage and compaction issues. This usually involves digging, shoveling in organic matter and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Soil is soil, right? In some years, the dirt in your garden yields decent tomatoes and pretty marigolds while in other years nothing much grows. (Maybe ...

You have counseled in numerous articles the value of treating our clay soils with organic mulch. Could you suggest a source for good quality organic compost? I have been warned that the local ...

CORVALLIS – When you walk about your yard on a wet day, do your shoes stick in the mud? Could you make ceramic pots out of the soil in your garden? If the answers are yes to both, odds are you have ...

If you live on a property with clay soil, then you know how hard it is to grow a lush lawn. The compact structure of this soil type makes it difficult for roots to grow and robs grass of the oxygen, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Coloradans love to hate their clay. It sticks to shovels in clumps as large as their heads. It parts only for the monster taproots of hated weeds. It chokes ...

We’re well into winter and that means spring and the gardening season is on the horizon. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University ...