Soil tests yield vital information about the pH balance of your soil, the physical composition of it, and the nutrient base.

The compost facility at the Muscatine Transfer Station is offering screened compost and wood mulch for free. Loading of ...

By now, you’ve harvested all, or at least most, of the vegetables in your garden. At this point the soil is naked, and that’s ...

Myno Carbon says with a robust market pull, US biochar production has potential to remove over a billion metric tonnes of ...

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.

Two months of drought have left West Virginia’s topsoil and subsoil at their driest levels, and pasture in its worst condition, in 22 years of U.S. Department of Agriculture record-keeping ...

The report, delivered on behalf of RTX Corp. to the California State Water Resources Control Board in June, detailed soil vapor and groundwater inspections at seven locations near the now vacant ...

and even the stability of soil aggregates. At low pH, essential plant macronutrients (i.e., N, P, K, Ca, Mg, and S) are less bioavailable than at higher pH values near 7, and certain ...

2005). With the exception of C, H, and O, which plants obtain from air and water, plants derive the remaining 14 elements from the soil or through fertilizers, manures, and amendments (Parikh ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed concern at the rise of nationalist and right-wing extremist forces in his ...

Tipton now plants them instead of letting his fields lie fallow after the harvest. Tipton lets some soil come apart in his hands. Inside is a pink earthworm. “It's a sign of life,” he says.

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 ...