If Mother Nature and The Green Man sent you a short message about what you are calling “bad soil,” it might look something like this…

Details from The Garden Lady, Saturday May 24th, 2025

In addition to discussing our propensity to classify our soils as “bad,” I interviewed Jill Nooney, garden designer and co-creator of Bedrock Gardens on The Garden Lady on Saturday. Find out more about Jill’s new book about Bedrock Gardens here.

We spoke about soil temperatures and I mentioned this website for finding the temperature of your soil no matter where you live, and this document for information about ideal soil temperatures for starting vegetable seeds.