Improving Your Soil Booklet

Create fertile, productive soil, anywhere!

Improving you soil both increases the yield of your garden and makes your garden easier to tend.

This 32-page booklet answers your questions about your soil and how to get the most out of it. Discussing soil's profile and many layers, it teaches you how to identify different types of soil, take samples and test your soil, and cultivation techniques.

With Improving Your Soil, you'll learn the best way to improve the soil in your garden, including how to:

Determine whether your garden soil is sandy, clay or loam

Identify the right time to work your soil

Take a soil sample

Balance pH

Improve difficult soils, such as soggy, sandy, compacted or shallow soils

Use soil amendments

And more!