Garden Soil Amendments It is the season of gratefulness. We have gathered in our harvests and are putting away the garden for winter’s long sleep. We are thankful. But what about the garden? What will replenish its fertility and wellbeing for the next growing season? Now is a good time to add garden soil amendments […]
clay soil
5 Tips to Improve Clay Soil
This page has moved. It can be found @ Ilona’s Garden: 5 Tips To Improve Clay Soil, along with other informative posts on soil improvement. But if you want only one really important tip for working with clay soil, it is this: Don’t work (dig, hoe, rake, step on, etc) clay soils when they are […]
Do You Dig Your Soil?
That is “sixties-speak” for whether or not you like the soil handed to you in your garden… do you bloom where you are planted? Here in Central Ohio I have gardened on clay types of soils. Presently my garden soil is composed of a dark clay loam called Kokomo. With the way the weather has […]
ReFreeze
Re-froze, so I guess that is it for the thaw! In my garden there is often a mid-winter time with decently warm temperatures and dry enough earth to do some early tilling. I get the feeling that this won’t materialize this year. When it does, it is absolutely the best time to get the vegetable […]
