Struggling with drainage in your garden beds or flower pots? Amend the soil with a porous rock made in a volcano, and you'll ...

This was updated in July 2021. Well-drained soil has both water and air present. It's also warmer, increases nutrient availability to plants and contains more soil organisms. Poor drainage, on the ...

Dark pots are an easy way to give a little extra heat to plants that need it. Watch your watering, and your garden will ...

What's the best way to improve your garden's drainage? During the rainy months, frustrated gardeners have seen their back gardens turn to swamps, which has a long term knock-on effect because good ...

Got drainage problems? Me, too, or at least I used to until I used a combination of simple concepts to correct them. A lot of folks have too much water in an area after heavy rains, either coming from ...

Some gardens are created by careful design guided by esthetics while others happen primarily by chance, as the gardener has time, money and inspiration to make changes. A few come about because of ...

A reader in Rohnert Park asks the Garden Docs why their sloped backyard isn't draining well. L.B. writes: I have a slope behind my house in Rohnert Park and according to what I have read about soils ...

Last year I grew some vegetables in 5 gallon pots on my sunny deck with poor success. I prepared the containers by cleaning, putting crumpled plastic bags in the bottom and then filling with a good ...