A cutting garden is simply a garden filled with flowers meant to be picked, shared, and enjoyed indoors. Many of the best cut flowers are easy to grow from seed, making this an ideal winter planning ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

New research reveals how underground drainage pipes are transforming India’s degraded black soils into productive carbon ...

Each downpour leaves your lawn looking like a pond and your patio ringed with puddles. Five hidden culprits could be quietly ...

The crux of soil health hinges on the chemical, physical and biological properties of a soil being in balance and allowing for a functioning, sustainable system. Biology has been the buzzword around ...

All farmers want healthy soil, but figuring out if you have healthy soil and how to build good soil on your farm and ranch is a skill that takes time to explore. We are digging deeper into the ...

In northeastern China’s expressway slopes, the shrub Amorpha fruticosa (AFL) significantly improved soil stability compared to other species Soil stability relies on a combination of strong fungal ...

What makes good soil and what does “good” mean? Most of us would likely answer that good soil is full of readily available nutrients for our vegetables and flowers to uptake and robustly grow. There ...

Siul Ruiz receives funding from The Royal Society. James Le Houx does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and ...

This writer clearly remembers standing in the corn fields of central Minnesota when I was a child, marveling at all the worms wriggling and writhing within a fistful of brown, moist soil I had scooped ...

Healthy soils are vital for sustaining life on Earth. They are essential for ecosystems, agricultural production, and clean water, and even help to regulate climate. A new article in Reviews of ...