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 ...

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 ...

Bring pollinators to every corner of your yard with these plants for wet soil. Grow camas, cardinal flower, and more perfect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people know prolonged wet weather can increase fungal diseases in plants and promote weak growth so plants flop over. Another concern, which is often overlooked, is the negative effect of ...