This coarse, gritty sand improves drainage, fights root rot, and makes soil easier to dig—here’s how to use it right.

Instead, go up. Build a raised bed about 12 inches high on top of the existing soil using garden soil or topsoil. The raised ...

Topsoil is key to a healthy garden and landscape. Topsoil is the uppermost layer of soil. It's where essential nutrients, ...

In hardware stores or garden centers, there are often entire sections dedicated solely to soil. Alongside regular potting ...

By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Dirt is dirt — or is it? Anyone who’s tried to garden in North Idaho knows that our soil varies from bad to worse in most areas. My ...

the sand breaks up the clay soil. You need to add it in spring and autumn for a few years." Becky hit back saying: "Sand can be awful on clay, it turns it into concrete. I've got quite a lot of ...

Rainfall and sunshine are a stellar combination for growing a lawn, but more can be done to make your grass look thicker and greener.

Desert Control, in their words, plans to use nanoclay to take unproductive desert land “from sand to hope”. Using clay to improve soils is nothing new – farmers have been doing so for ...