If your garden has heavy clay soil, you'll know what hard work it ... so beware of working the soil too soon after a cold, wet winter. Clay is easily compacted and in summer it can bake hard ...

If you want perennial plants to settle in as quickly and easily as possible, it pays to get them in the soil at the right ...

There never seems to be enough time in any given day to get everything done! I have not yet finished spring cleanup in my garden. If you are running late as I am in getting your garden cleaned up, ...

Roots "feel" gravity to extend and anchor themselves in the soil, but they can alter their growth direction toward a water source when needed. However, according to a new study by scientists at the ...

In terms of dandelions, the best time to control them is when they are in the puff ball or shoe fairy stage. (Shoe fairies are the name my grandson gave them years ago while walking through the yard, ...

making it difficult to get water to plant roots. Yet in winter, it can be constantly wet and waterlogging is common. It is hard to dig at most times of the year Silty soil - is made up of fine ...

if the lavender plant is rooted in wet or heavy soil, the roots can suffer and the plant will wilt. Also note that by the winter, some lavender plants aren't hardy and won't survive the winter ...

Or simply let them fall to the ground, which builds up the seed bank in your soil and allows plants to germinate when conditions are just right. This works especially well in winter, when regular ...