Setting your garden up for a thriving spring filled with gorgeous blooms starts with some important soil enhancement in the ...

As long as you have done the necessary prep work, you can put your feet up during winter while your garden and its tiny ...

Adjusting nutrient levels in your garden soil is essential for preparing for spring growth, and December is an ideal time to do so. Based on your soil test results, you may need to apply lime to raise ...

A good practice is to write down the weather conditions when taking a soil sample. Dry and wet weather affect soil samples, ...

Now that spring is here officially, most of us are scurrying about outdoors, intent on making garden beds ready for ornamental plants, herbs and vegetables. There are numerous gardening tasks that ...

As your vegetable garden winds down for the season, it can be tempting to simply let it rest until spring. But what if you ...

Researchers from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney investigated the vast and largely hidden world beneath our feet. Soil is where 59% of all life on Earth resides. A ...

We can’t see them, but there are more microbes — tiny fungi, bacteria, worms and other living things — in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on Earth. Hungry as you and me, those microbes gobble ...

Findings from the University of Kansas could offer important context for farmers who want to use beneficial microbes to ...