No matter how big or small your garden is, the soil occasionally needs upkeep. Tilling, or aerating the soil, is an essential part of maintaining healthy soil. Tilling helps get rid of weeds and ...

Clay soil is found in many American gardens, but it isn't a hospitable home for all plants. If you're preparing your garden for summer, or want to grow flowers or vegetables, you might struggle. There ...

Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy, but as much as we’d like to, we can’t try everything. Which is why we have People’s Choice, in ...

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 ...

Whether you’re planting flowers, vegetables or grass seeds, the first step to ensuring healthy growth is properly preparing the soil. Soil that’s too hard and compacted won’t allow your plants’ roots ...

My grandmother’s vegetable garden had the most wonderful rich, dark, crumbly soil I’ve ever seen. A powered tiller would have been a luxury in her world. Instead she set me to work “spading” it; ...

Clay-heavy soils contain large quantities of fine-grained clay particles that clump together and cause drainage issues, soil compaction, reduced plant growth, and other problems. However, with a bit ...

Is there any way to break down clay soil? I would like to plant a garden and some fruit trees, but I can only dig down a couple of inches before I hit the clay soil. A: You're on the right track ...

Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when it comes to your soil. So should you till or not when preparing and maintaining your garden? That decision depends on several factors, and no one answer ...

A tiller can save an incredible amount of time and labor spent on soil preparation. But these machines are costly and may not be used frequently enough to warrant an outright purchase. If you have ...

SALISBURY — Many people, when they move to the Piedmont, are bamboozled by our red dirt. My soil science professor is screaming at me right now from Colorado that it is not dirt, it’s SOIL. OK so red ...