Peat Moss – Makes Soil More Mud-Like
Q: Does adding peat moss to soil make it drain better or make it more mud like?
A: Adding peat moss to soil makes it more mud-like. The reason is that peat particles are very small and they absorb lots of water. In combination with the tiny particles of clay and silt we typically find, the soil quickly becomes slick and slimy. Composted wood fiber, ground pine bark and composted food waste mixed with either one make excellent soil amendments.
-
Advertisement
-
Follow Walter
-
Advertisement
-
-
August calendar
Watch out for pests! Look out for Snakes, Slugs, Ants and others. Now is also a...
Get The Checklist
-
-
-
name that plant
Post your puzzlers and help others with theirs.
Start Here
-
-
Trending Posts
-
1
A Banana Enthusiast’s Notes on Banana Feeding
-
2
Rain Barrel – Using Water in a Vegetable Garden
-
3
Oak – Gouty Gall
-
4
Fescue – Pythium Blight
-
5
Mixing Fescue and Rye – Good or Bad?
-
1
Oak – Gouty Gall
-
2
Fescue – Pythium Blight
-
3
Oak – Ring Numbers
-
4
Pine Tree – Burning in a Fireplace
-
5
Maple Tree – Survival
-
-
Walter’s Bookshelf
Browse and purchase gardening books by Walter Reeves, plus select titles by other authors.
View books -
Popular topics
Soil Spring Summer Seed Winter Fall Flowers Weed Fertilizer Disease Shade Temperature Pots Oak Pine Pruning Mulch Watering Container Maple Compost Birds Herbicide Tomatoes Azalea Moisture Poison Pears Hydrangea Glyphosate Caterpillar Pests Cherry Roundup Irrigation Pre-Emergent Pesticide Stone Dogwood Peach Spider Pine Straw Greenhouse Magnolia Squash Squirrels Lemon Travel Beans Japanese Maple