If your landscape plants have been sitting and "sulking," the cause might be one of two underlying problems that require a ...

Most, but not all, clay particles will slowly settle in the top layer over the next day or two. The percentage of each layer determines the type of soil you have. Good garden loam will have 30-45% ...

per acre; in silty clay loam, it was 17 bu. per acre. The other treatments fell in between. Soil pits confirmed the density layer put in the previous year was still present in the three treatments ...

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

This makes it more difficult to prepare a deep, well-shattered layer that forms an ideal seed ... This happens because the soil's structural aggregates (groupings of sand,silt and clay into larger ...

Sometimes referred to as compost topdressing, the process involves adding a thin layer of organic material ... it’s often used in combination with heavy clay soil. Its texture can add smoothness ...

“Soils with too much clay and too much sand can both be remedied by lots of ... which can be added on top and lightly mixed in with a digging fork. “Just place a layer on top of the soil, and work a ...

The most prevalent clay-sized particles in soils fall into the class of layer-type aluminosilicates (Sposito 2008) that commonly have permanent negative charge with a high CEC. Positively charged ...

MOORHEAD — Two races for seats on the Clay County Soil and Water Conservation District Board ended in near ties. The race for ...

Some soils, such as sand, silt or clay, hold more water because of texture ... without compaction from wheel tracks or tillage layers,” Ferrie says. “You may have to use deep tillage to ...

In the quarry, the usually hidden layers of soil beneath our feet become visible. ‘The deeper the quarry is, the older the clay that is unearthed – up to a million years old. When drinking from a ...

Brighten the fall and winter landscape with a profusion of blooms from this charming Southern classic.