Yes, you can grow a lush lawn in clay soil—here’s how pros do it

If you live on a property with clay soil, then you know how hard it is to grow a lush lawn. The compact structure of this ...
TreeHugger

How to Amend Clay Soil: 6 Ways to Improve Soil

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...
Oregonian

Like diamonds, clay soils are forever; here’s how to make the best of them in the garden

CORVALLIS – When you walk about your yard on a wet day, do your shoes stick in the mud? Could you make ceramic pots out of the soil in your garden? If the answers are yes to both, odds are you have ...
Yahoo

Clay, sand, silt, loam: How different soils affect gardens

Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of organic materials and avoiding compaction, results in a soil with many ...
Springfield News-Leader

Ask the Master Gardener: Preparing soil for spring — till or no-till? And what about clay?

What is 'no-till' gardening? Is it better for my garden than traditional digging and tilling every year or not? What are the advantages of this method and how can I start using it? This method of ...
The Columbian

Clay, sand, silt & loam: What’s the ideal mix for garden soil?

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...
Davis Enterprise

Ask a Master Gardener: Growing plants in heavy clay soil

This column is written by the UC Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that recently came into the UC Master Gardener – Yolo County Help Desk. Question: ...
Oroville Mercury-Register

Planting bare-root fruit trees | The Real Dirt

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...
Oregonian

Does the Willamette Valley’s packed clay soil have you stumped? Ask an expert

The gardening season has started and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...