Living in the Great Lakes region of the United States, I contend with wet clay soil and a lot of precipitation throughout the growing season. Selecting the right trees and soil amendments has allowed ...

Many gardeners find it a challenge identifying plants for wet soil. Most plots have dank, wet spots where water tends to sit, brooks overflow, springs discharge or there is a naturally high water ...

Like farmers, vegetable gardeners sometimes work in the rain in spring in order to get their favorite seeds and plants in the ground on a timely basis. In a wet spring, when repeated rainfall events ...

I like to say that plants can be as fussy as a 2-year-old facing a plate of overcooked broccoli. Plants know what they want and will not behave the way you want them to unless you accommodate their ...

Summer in Florida is the rainy season and with that comes long periods of persistently wet soil. This can create significant challenges for those who want to grow food crops but cannot escape the ...

Gardeners eager to get outside and work in this year’s early warm weather should take care: It’s all too easy to damage your soil in early spring. “The danger is that you’ll compact the soil if you ...

Earlier this month I wrote about planting cool season crops. In a normal year digging and preparing garden soil now would be appropriate. However, this year has been excessively wet with snow melt and ...

FARGO - Saturated soils due to excessive rainfall, overland flooding or inadequate drainage can stress soybeans enough to reduce growth and yield or even kill the plants. The seriousness of the yield ...

The following discussion is on the use of phosphite as a natural soil fungicide and bio-stimulant for early-season soil fungal control and fast plant growth. What is the difference between phosphite ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Soil-applied herbicides can knock out a farmer's toughest weeds, but the chemical products are no match against soggy fields, said Bill Johnson, Purdue University Extension weed ...

Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project.