{"id":2521,"date":"2018-09-08T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2018-09-08T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:53:12","slug":"working-with-poorly-drained-soils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2018\/09\/08\/working-with-poorly-drained-soils\/","title":{"rendered":"Working With Poorly Drained Soils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2708\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_5482.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2708\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2708\" title=\"IMG_5482\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_5482-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_5482-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_5482-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soil Amending<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10942\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ilex-glabra-4.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10942\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10942\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ilex-glabra-4-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ilex-glabra-4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ilex-glabra-4-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ilex-glabra-4-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inkberry holly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a rule, yews (<em>Taxus spp<\/em>.), Japanese hollies (<em>Ilex crenata<\/em>), azaleas (<em>Rhododendron spp<\/em>.), blueberries (<em>Vaccinium spp<\/em>.), and roses (<em>Rosa spp<\/em>.)\u00a0are common examples of landscape plants that fail in poorly drained soils.<\/p>\n<p>Holly cultivars like &#8216;Hoogendorn&#8217;\u00a0 and &#8216;Soft Touch&#8217;\u00a0 fair better in clay soils that most other Japanese hollies in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7). A better alternative is to substitute inkberry holly (<em>Ilex glabra<\/em>) in any planting bed where soil quality is suspect. A number of perennial plants die or are setback\u00a0after spending their winter in waterlogged soils.<\/p>\n<p>You can improve soil drainage by adding generous amounts of organic matter and coarse gravel such as sand, pea gravel, and perlite. It is difficult to estimate the\u00a0exact amount to incorporate<\/p>\n<p>Constructing and planting in raised bed is another option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a rule, yews (Taxus spp.), Japanese hollies (Ilex crenata), azaleas (Rhododendron spp.), blueberries (Vaccinium spp.), and roses (Rosa spp.)\u00a0are common examples of landscape plants that fail in poorly drained soils. Holly cultivars like &#8216;Hoogendorn&#8217;\u00a0 and &#8216;Soft Touch&#8217;\u00a0 fair better in clay soils that most other Japanese hollies in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[711,709,650,800,686,627,712,777,630,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}