Determining how often to water your grass in summer is easy if you know which factors to consider. The answer will depend on ...

The ideal soil is not one that is predominantly sand, silt, or clay, but one that has all these particles in amounts that let each express itself. The result is a range of pore sizes, some to hold ...

Improving sandy soil. Published: May. 07, 2009, 11:06 a.m. By . George Weigel | Special to PennLive; George Weigel. The three sizes of soil particles will settle out into distinct layers in this ...

Sandy particles, the largest in soil, let everything pass through quickly, especially water and nutrients. Compare sandy particles to a jar of tennis balls and how fast water gets through and ...

Sand particles are uncharged, letting plant food just wash right through and leaving these soils naturally infertile. THE CURE-ALL You can cure the ills of either clay or sandy soils in basically ...

"The single most effective way to improve sandy soil is to add organic materials such as compost, yard waste, and humus," Heinrich says. "Sandy soils are often rich in minerals but poor in microbes ...

Sandy soils have lots of air spaces between particles but very little water-holding capacity. They are good for growing many kinds of plants that need good drainage and lots of air in the soil.

You can test the soil texture of your garden before you begin amending it. The easiest method is the “feel test.” To estimate the texture you will need to moisten a small quantity of dirt ...

Sand particles are round, not flat, so water drains through quickly. But that means that the nutrients run-off quickly, too, so you have to add extra water and fertilizer with sandy soil.

A sample of Beelitz sandy soil containing fragments of thin polyethylene film (PET) was analysed here. Such films are used in asparagus cultivation. The neutron tomography (in shades of grey ...