Fall mulching also gives you a head start on next spring. As the mulch breaks down over the winter, it adds essential nutrients to the soil, giving your plants a boost once warmer weather arrives.
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 ...
Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage. Aa Aa ...
The author, food activist and pioneer of seasonal, local fine dining in the United States with Chez Panisse, will use the grant to support The Edible Schoolyard Project.
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 ...
Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa) that ...
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 ...