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Let soil temperature guide you when planting vegetables

This year, however, paying attention to soil temperature is the best way to go for knowing when to plant vegetables. An inexpensive soil thermometer helps keep planting time in perspective.

Kym Pokorny | Mar 20, 2023 | News story

Sand, silt or clay? Texture says a lot about soil

Texture determines all kinds of things like drainage, aeration, the amount of water the soil can hold, erosion potential and even the amount of nutrients that can be stored.

Kym Pokorny | Sep 3, 2021 | News story

Explore What Lives & Grows in the Dirt Activities

A six-week series of garden science experiments to help kids learn about what plants need to grow and how food changes forms to arrive at the dinner table.

Farm to School

Webinar recording: Healthy Soils for Healthy People

Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up Series November webinar with Dr. Gail Langellotto

Master Gardener™

Post - Construction Soil Quality and Depth

Post-construction quality and depth provides improved onsite management of stormwater flow and water quality. It involves amending the disturbed soils with compost in the post development landscape to help reestablish a healthy soil ecosystem. This BMP is required for all sites.

May 2018 | Online resource

Estimating soil moisture by feel and appearance

This publication provides direction on estimating soil moisture by the "feel and appearance" method; taking a some soil and rolling it up in a ball then squeezing it between your thumb and forefinger to form a ribbon and noting how it appears and feels. Compare what you see with photographs and/or charts to estimate percent water available and the inches depleted below field capacity.

Oct 2019 | Online resource

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