While spending hours working on your garden can be a joy, it's always nice to have some plants that grow and thrive with little effort on your part. But if you have especially clay-heavy soil, finding ...

In a perfect world, we’d all have rich, loamy soil to grow our favorite flowers, perennials, shrubs, and trees. But in many yards, the soil is clay. Typically, if your soil tends to stick like putty ...

Picking rocks out of Missouri dirt may be a never-ending endeavor, but what about gardening in clay soil? This week's column ...

There are many different types of soil in our area, but clay seems to be more abundant than are others. On the one hand, clay soil is heavy, hard to work unless the moisture level is just right, and ...

We'll also teach you how to amend the soil you have so you can grow the plants you want. Depending on where you live, you're likely to have one of six different types of soil: loam, clay, sandy, silty ...

Not every gardener gets good dirt. In fact, the coveted sandy loam is uncommon in this area. Most of us get dirt with too much clay or too much sand -- and that creates a challenge when it comes to ...

Q: The soil in my community garden plot is heavy clay. A neighboring gardener suggested adding leaf mulch and sand to improve its texture. How much sand and leaves should I add to attain a plot that ...

Q: I have a full shade area along the side of my house where I can't get anything to grow. We live in a wooded area with acidic soil. The soil is mostly clay, although I have amended it somewhat.

Add as much organic material to your heavy clay soil as possible to help it return to its native state. Then you’ll have a better chance to grow healthy, lovely plants such as these SunPatiens. Adele ...

Clay soil can present several challenges to gardeners due to its density. One way to amend compacted clay soil is with a ...