If you’re planning a new garden, you should start with good soil. After all, soil is the medium of life for plants, providing a place for roots to spread out and take up water and nutrients.

Reduced root growth in compacted soil leads to greater susceptibility to drought and can cause phosphorus and potassium ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

Similar to using tea bags in your garden to enrich compost there are several ways to make your discarded banana peels work ...

Soils are never dry for as long as 90 cumulative days or 60 consecutive days following summer solstice. Ustic - soil moisture conditions intermediate between aridic and udic and typical of ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

This article will review the critical biogeochemical processes occurring at the plant root-soil interface ... compared to legumes (~60 million years ago), which is likely why mycorrhizae are ...

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...