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 ...

Healthy soil is the heart of thriving gardens and homesteads. Knowing the complex makeup of soil and how to care for it, can ...

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However, I was successful in growing an outstanding specimen of “Nelly Moser” clematis. And now to Tyler where we moved in 2013. We have loved living here and my favorite thing is the wonderful sandy ...

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

Alan Titchmarsh says his garden is unable to grow five plants, but they thrive in his daughters' homes just eight miles away ...

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By now, you probably know what kind of soil you have out there in your "back 40." If planting that rose bush brought up wads of gummy goo, you know to call it clay. If instead you scooped up gritty ...