Improving Your Soil

By Stu Campbell

Improving your soil both increases the yield of your garden and makes your garden easier to tend. With Improving Your Soil, you'll learn about soil and how it is formed and the best way to make improvements.

• Determine whether your garden soil is sandy, clay, or loam
• Identify the right time to work your soil and how to take a soil sample
• Improve difficult soils such as soggy, sandy, compacted, or shallow soils
• Use of soil amendments, and much, much more!

Softcover. 32 pages. Storey Publishing, LLC 1980.

Use the guide to identify whether a problem is primarily texture, compaction, drainage, organic matter, pH, or nutrient balance before choosing an amendment. A laboratory soil test provides a stronger basis for lime, sulfur, phosphorus, and other lasting changes than appearance alone. Apply recommendations at measured rates, observe plant response, and remember that soil structure usually improves through repeated management rather than one large application.

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