Soil compaction and poor drainage can cause major headaches for both lawns and gardens—but there are proven ways to fix them! 🌱 In this Backyard Farmer segment, Jeff Culbertson shares expert tips on how to identify, prevent, and improve compacted soil and tackle drainage issues that limit healthy root growth.
compacted soils or poorly drained soils can be a real frustration in our landscape and especially in our vegetable gardens. So, there’s a couple things we can do to to mitigate that. Um, and but first of all, really, we want to kind of determine what’s going on with our soils. So, if you suspect you have a drainage problem, one thing you could do, a very simple test is to dig a hole, oh, 6 to 8 in around, maybe a foot deep, fill it full of water, let that water drain out, then fill it again, and then measure how much water has drained out over the next hour. Uh, if more than an inch or two is drained out, then your soils are probably draining just fine. If less than that has drained out, then you likely have compacted soils or poorly drained soils, which will really inhibit plants from doing well in that
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