What is the Best Time to Apply Soil Amendments?
Soil amendments can be extremely beneficial to our gardens. They can take on physical soil conditions, improve soil pH, improve soil nutrient storage, etc. Continue reading
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Healthy Soil is Vital to Life Abundant
When we think of soil we generally think more in terms of what the soil produces than the soil itself. We grow grass, flowers, vegetables, shrubs, trees and the like. There is a lot to the soil we usually don’t…
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Preparing Your Lawn for your New Puppy
Are you expecting a new puppy anytime soon? Maybe as a gift, a rescue puppy, or a companion you’ve been planning on getting. Congratulations! You are in for an energetic package of love and joy. Those first few weeks with…
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Fall Clay Soil Garden Preparation for Spectacular Spring Gardens
We all want nutrient rich open porous soil when we start our gardening in the spring. Fall is an excellent time to start preparing for a spectacular spring garden.
When your fall harvest has been completed it is time to take the remaining plant material and turn it into the soil where it can breakdown… Continue reading
Dog Urine and New Sod
Sod is a great way to get a nice looking lawn fast. In just a few hours you can have a beautiful lawn covering what previously was bare soil. Sod is a great way to improve the look and usability…
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Why is Dog Urine Killing My Grass?
There is an analogy we use when explaining why dog urine burns a lawn. Think of a dog urine spot as evidence your lawn is overweight and has a slow metabolism. A burn spot in your lawn is the result of an excessive amount of nitrogen found in dog urine. This nitrogen has overwhelming the soil’s ability to metabolize it into usable growth nutrients. Like an overweight person, the soil has consumed too many “calories”… Continue reading
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Improving Clay Soil Around Growing Vegetables
ClayMend is ideal for using in vegetable gardens whether it is applied before being planted or whether there are plants already growing. The ingredients include naturally occurring organic acids, microbes, and some nitrogen and sulfur that are in rich fertile…
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Georgia Red Clay
Improving Georgia Red Clay Georgia Red Clay is the common name for a soil found in Georgia that is red in color. It is prevalent in other locations as well. It is called clay but it is actually classified as…
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Improving Clay Soil Around Flowers
Beautiful flowers can be difficult to grow in hard clay soil gardens. In order to have nice foliage and bright blooms flowers need to have access to air, water, and the proper nutrients. Those nutrients can be tied up in…
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Improving Clay Soil Around Trees and Shrubs
Have you ever planted a tree or shrub in clay soil only to have them grow poorly and die a few years later? Additionally when you dig them up do you notice the roots never grew outside of the original…
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Improve Your Lawn by Improving Your Clay Soil
Even if a lawn is healthy the clay soil is likely restricting its growth in some area. Lawns can struggle in clay because of its fine soil particles that can get tightly packed and result in a dense soil structure. …
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How Dog Urine Affects Soil pH
A lot of people work hard to have a lush green lawn. When pee spots from our pets appear we can easily get frustrated. We want to take action to stop the pee spots. We often jump to the conclusion that they are caused by an imbalance in the pH of the dog urine. This often leads to home remedies such as baking soda, gypsum, or… Continue reading
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Will ClayMend Harm My Worms?
ClayMend will help improve the environment of the soil which will help worms thrive. It actually helps improve the environment of the soil. The more porous soil helps the soil retain moisture. It assist worms in the breakdown of organic…
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Enrich Your Soil
The study of soil can be dated back to mankind’s very existence. From the Greek historian Xenophon (450–355 B.C.) to today’s multitude of scientists looking for tomorrows answers, we at HumicGreen found a great way to enrich your soil with SoilEnliven. Continue reading
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