Maintaining a beautiful lawn and garden requires attention to many different components; soil, plants and water. This can be challenging for both life-long residents and newcomers to the North Texas area. We're here to help you find resources to navigate gardening in McKinney.
The primary soil type in McKinney and Collin County is Houston Black Clay. While extremely fertile, this soil can only absorb about .10" per hour making it difficult to establish healthy soil for landscape beds as we often overwater and drown our plants.
To help avoid this, adding amendments, such as mulch or compost, and aerating your soil can help to improve conditions to grow healthy plants.
Here in North Texas, we can spend a lot of water to keep plants alive throughout our hot summers. By planting native and adapted plants, plants proven to tolerate the heat, we can all do our part to save water, improve the water quality of our local creeks and extend the habitat of butterflies, hummingbirds and honey bees to name a few.