Gardeners are being urged to check their soil in February to avoid running into problems growing things this coming summer.

THE influence of soil micro-organisms upon the physical condition of soil has received some attention in recent years. Various workers 1 have shown that fungi and bacteria and their associated ...

Plus, sandy soil has loose particles that create air pockets and make it difficult for grass roots to take hold and thrive.

If you're dealing with uneven spots in your yard, you might be wondering if a lawn leveling rake is really necessary or if ...

The relative ability of soils to store one particular group of nutrients, the cations, is referred to as cation exchange capacity or CEC. Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and ...

Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has large particles. These create lots of small air gaps. Water drains through them easily ...

Desert Control, in their words, plans to use nanoclay to take unproductive desert land “from sand to hope”. Using clay to improve soils is nothing new – farmers have been doing so for ...

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete ...