Jane shows us how to avoid compacting your soil, how to tell when it is, and what you can do to fix it. Ideally soil has air pockets to allow moisture, worms, roots and microbes to pass through. When ...

When soils are dry in late summer and early fall, this is an ideal time to perform deep tillage on fields with suspected or verified soil compaction. Remember to look for the compaction zone and set ...

While working as a landscaper and gardener off and on for almost 30 years, I’ve always been amazed at the ability of spindly vegetable and flower plant starts to grow into hardy, full-sized plants. To ...

When is the best time to renovate dead patches in lawns? Late summer through early autumn (mid-August to mid-September) is the best time to renovate lawns in Wisconsin. According to Dr. John Stier ...