by Steven Andrews | Nov 21, 2013 | General, Home Gardening, Tips
Don’t throw all those freshly fallen leaves into your green waste cart for curbside pickup. Instead, create a leaf mold compost bin and let nature do the work of recycling those leaves into a nutrient rich soil amendment. Producing leaf mold compost is easy to do,...
by Steven Andrews | Nov 21, 2013 | General, Soil Science
Will it ever rain? That’s recently been the number one question on the mind of most Bay Area gardeners. Here we are in November and barely a drop has fallen from the clouds. Are we experiencing a drought? Climate change? What’s a gardener to do? The lack of...
by Steven Andrews | Oct 16, 2013 | General, Home Gardening, Tips
It’s time to cover all of those open spaces in your garden and landscape with two inches of WM EarthCare™ Homegrown Compost. Add spring color to open patches and raised beds by spreading a mix of wildflower seeds over the compost and water-in lightly. Winter rains...
by Steven Andrews | Oct 15, 2013 | General, Soil Science
After reading the title of this month’s Everyday Soil Science installment you might be scratching your head. Sweet and salty soil? Are you nuts, Soil Sommelier? Of course not! Sweet and salty soil actually refers to two common chemical indicators of soil health and...
by Steven Andrews | Sep 19, 2013 | General, Soil Science
In this fourth installment in the Everyday Soil Science series, we move our discussion to two important indicators of soil health that are often overlooked by gardeners and landscape professionals — bulk density and porosity. The weighty subject of bulk density...
