Foot traffic, lawn mowing and vehicular traffic can all cause soil compaction. These movements seem like minor weight on the ground to actually compress the soil tightly, but it does. Compacted soils ...

Many aspects of gardening are easy to control—like how much water your plants get and how often you fertilize—while other factors are harder to maintain. Unless you're using raised beds and filling ...

It’s summer blockbuster time, so imagine a movie-scale monster has buried you in a landslide and then stomped on the rocks until you’re pinned in gravel. You can’t move, and you can’t breathe. That’s ...

Regardless of what you’re growing, spring is an exciting time of year. But it doesn’t come without challenges. Compaction can lead to wet soil that makes it difficult to get in your fields on time for ...

what's going on everyone in today's episode I'm going to share with you some things that you can do if you have compacted soil that can still allow you to not only have a garden but have a great one ...

Good garden soil contains 30% to 50% sand, 30% to 50% silt, 20% to 30% clay and 5% to 10% organic water. The bacteria, fungi and worms in the soil produce substances that act like glue, binding all ...

Soil testing begins with the homeowner, gardener, and farmer. The most critical step in soil testing is soil sample collection. Soil testing can help growers make informed decisions about fertilizer ...

When you look at the walk-behind compactors in your fleet, chances are you don't think of them as precise scientific instruments. Yet, soil compaction is a science and it requires a certain degree of ...

Soil scientist Andrew Margenot holds a jar of soil gathered from Menard County, Illinois in 1948. The University of Illinois professor said he rediscovered the "church of soil" when searching an old ...