As any avid gardener knows, having the right soil in your garden is one of the most important steps in achieving healthy plant growth. Unfortunately, homeowners with heavy clay soil in their yards ...

We can all imagine what healthy soil looks like: Rich, crumbly, and dark brown, bursting with nutrients and ready to house your greenest veggies, most succulent fruits, and prettiest flowers. But ...

When you look at soil, there are some specific colors you'd expect to see — like brown, for example. However, you may sometimes come across more unexpected colors. Shades of red, black, white, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stick with me, friend, and I’ll give you important facts you need to know about the soils in which you garden. I can do it in a 4-minute read, and it might change your level of success as a North ...

I have a hydrangea and would like to know how to make it bloom blue flowers. — Kathy Newman, Gretna Hydrangeas are exceptional plants in that the color of their flowers can change depending on the ...