If an area of your lawn is growing in patchy, you likely have an item in your tool kit to help you out. While this method may ...

If you're installing a new raised bed, simply filling it with some extra soil from around your yard may seem like a cheap and ...

If you have moss growing alongside your grass, it is essential to get rid of it if you wish to keep your lawn healthy, and ...

This can happen throughout the soil profile, or it may appear on a single layer, like the surface or where a tillage implement stops. Compaction leads to numerous issues that negatively impact plant ...

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

Besides drought, other causes of poor uptake include soil compaction and high levels of nitrate-nitrogen. When soil is compacted, potassium ions become trapped inside compressed soil particles and ...

Operating a controlled traffic system on silage fields this year – for both nutrient applications and grass harvesting – ...

If you find poor-appearing plants with shallow roots over subsoils which break out in horizontal layers or plates and have roots adhering to their upper surfaces, you'll know that you have compaction ...

Stress may occur from leaf injury due to disease, insects, hail, etc., or from poor soil conditions such as compaction, low K coupled with high N, or injury from root insects, stalk damage, etc.

Soil compaction might not seem like the most exciting topic, but the proper completion of this step is essential. If soil compaction is not performed adequately, settlement of the soil could occur ...