Good organic amendments for garden soils include wood byproducts such as sawdust and bark mulch, rotted manure, grass or ...

This week's column is all about soil and the best ways to make gardening easier without accidentally creating concrete.

Fruit trees require a significant investment of money and time, so give yours the best possible chance to thrive by growing ...

The clear-out of now-redundant machinery has gone very well over the past couple of years, with combines, sprayers and drills ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...

BUTTERWORTH, Feb 23 (Bernama) – The Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) is set to cut costs by RM90 million per year with ...

A new study reveals the extreme vulnerability of the Arequipa shrublands to these blazes, with severe soil degradation ...

Azaleas have low nutritional needs to put on a brilliant show of flowers. However, they do need an occasional boost to keep ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth from outer space.

Additionally, the region has a variety of soil types—limestone, clay and sandy—which each ... we can determine the amount of organic matter present in a soil sample that is representative ...

and I add more organic matter each year. The ideal soil type for growing most crops is loam, the rich halfway point between clay and sandy soils. If you’re not sure which soil type you have ...