Reich says that while clay holds nutrients well, most clay soils start out low in them. So if you’re digging a new bed, he recommends adding granular organic fertilizer to cheaply provide a ...

Topsoils often have a granular structure that allows water to drain rapidly. Soils with high clay content usually have a blocky, chunky structure where water drains moderately well.

Still, if you have particularly clay-filled soil and want to break it up, adding perlite or vermiculite can help, if it is incorporated into the soil well, in amounts varying from 10-50%.

Soil consists of a mixture of sand, silt, and clay particles, along with organic matter. As part of the soil test, Heilig says, have a soil-texture test run to show what you're dealing with.

In the case of granular soils, ... "You can't take our plate and use it on clay, but you can run it on native backfill, which is a mix of cohesive and granular." Don't overdo it.

Unlike polymers, Quench is based on a natural material (cornstarch) in a form that can absorb up to 400 times its weight in water, right up there with good compost or forest duff.

To apply granular sulfur to soil follow the recommendation on the bag by soil type, clay and organic soils need more sulfur to change the pH then sandy soils, but don’t exceed more than two ...

QUESTION — We live in an 83-year-old, two-storey home in River Heights and before the snow flew this past winter, there was approximately a four-inch gap/space between my foundation and the soil ...