Less popular in homeowners’ yards, silty soil is a near-water soil found around ponds and lakes. To improve its texture, use the same soil amendments as working with clay soil. Lower than 6.5 Acidic ...
Planting on wet soil and over-tilling can cause soil compaction, but so do foot traffic, heavy equipment and a clay soil you’re trying to amend with sand. We discuss the main causes of compacted soil ...
because those green spaces provide many beneficial ecosystem services to people who live near those areas," Bock said. More information: Hayden W. Bock et al, Soil animal communities demonstrate ...
Residents appear to have won their fight to get a major developer to shift mounds of ‘building waste’. Locals say the large piles were left near Langley Pond and covered in soil and were from the ...
As far as I'm concerned, I haven't seen any flies or gnats in my soil. If any, it's not coming from the soil. There are actually rocks in this mix, small and big ones but they don't matter to me. It ...
Federal agents drilled for soil samples Tuesday afternoon on Houston Housing Authority land where deposits of toxic ash have been found near a controversial apartment complex. The Pointe at Bayou ...
This week, DEP staff plan to complete additional soil sampling in the Pond B area. The previous soil sampling event near Pond B was completed in September from an area where appreciable amounts of ...
Many people consider that sandy soil doesn’t keep nutrients as effectively as the silt and clay soil. We won’t deny it! However, that doesn’t mean having a sandy soil garden is a disadvantage thing.